Re: : New mom board
James Knott <[email protected]>
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Digimer wrote: > On 17/03/14 08:26 AM, James Knott wrote: >> I'm thinking about getting a new motherboard for my computer. My >> current motherboard is an ASUS/AMD 64 bit that's showing it's age. Any >> suggestions? Of course, it must work well with Linux. > > Whatever you get, be sure it doesn't have a realtek network card on > it. These are almost everywhere as they're so cheap. If you find a > mainboard with an actual Intel NIC (desktop or server), then it's a > good sign it's a board aimed at quality instead of lowest price, so it > should work better. > > The realtek cards are just horrible little NICs... > NICs are easy enough to work around, but video is more of a concern. My current video card is NVidia, which is starting to run into driver issues, as they are proprietary and the open source Nouveau drivers are crap. I understand Intel video is also good. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://gtalug.org/ TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists