Best Chip Set(s) for AMD Phenom?

[Leon Goldstein]

Ken Moffat wrote:

>On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 18:51 -0700, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
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>>On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Leon Goldstein <metapsych at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>>>The mobo is just for a desktop system.  I'm looking for long-term stability
>>>and reliability.
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>>I'm usually pleased with Asus boards for desktop purposes.
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>I would agree with the asus, which we have 2 of in our office, using
>dual core amd cpu's, and they scream. RS482-M754 is the number of the
>boards, running amd 5000 dual cores. (I don't think this particular
>board supports quads.)
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>I have a gigibyte GA-MA78GM-S2H running a dual core which is fine, and
>supports quad cores, but some don't like the built in Radeon 3200 HD
>graphics, which work under Debian Sid using the closed source ati
>drivers from their website. (Ubuntu automatically set them up after a
>prompt). However, I had to use a daily build of the Debian netinst cd to
>recognize my funky setup, which has 2 ide hd's, one sata hd, and one
>sata cd/dvd. Under the normal Debian net install, the cd/dvd would not
>be recognized.
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>Anyway, it works.
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>Ken
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Thanks, Ken.  You brought up another point that bothers me.  It is 
almost impossible today to find a mobo with 2 IDE channels.  That makes 
my inventory of IDE drives  almost worthless.

Anyhow, let me rephrase my original question a bit:   should I be 
looking more at the board rather than its chip set, i.e. are there no 
significant funtionality/stability issues ?

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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