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Article #216Re: Any problems with the Asus p4p800 deluxe and linux
From: david walcroft
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 06:26
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 06:26
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Ron Springer wrote:
> David. E. Goble wrote:
>
>> Hi All;
>>
>> I am planning on building a new system, I was going to go with;
>>
>> CASE-V1000C - THERMALTAKE Xaser III Steel Case Blue
>> Antec TruePower TrueControl 550W ATX PSU Gigacube ATI 9800 128MB DDR
>> Corsair 1024MB TWINX-3700 DDR ABIT NF7-S v2.0 AMD Athlon XP2500+
>> But I got curious about the price difference in changing the
>> motherboard and cpu.
>>
>> I found the Asus p4p800 deluxe and the intel 2.6ghz 800fsb, not much
>> more expensive.
>>
>> Are there any problems with this motherboard with linux?
>
> I use an NF7-S with 2 0.5G banks of 2700 and an XP2700+ - 2.4.20 kernel.
> My only comment would be the 3700 memory - AMD works best with a
> 'synchronous' memory interface - I don't think you can achieve that with
> 3700 memory UNLESS you can overclock. Carefully review any benchmarks
> that you can find - my configuration has been shown to run 3% faster :-)
> (per my recollection) with 2700 DDR than with 3200 DDR (the fastest
> option when I built my system about 10 months ago).
> RonS
>
You might get some info here:-
http://www6.tomshardware.com/
david
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