Re: : New mom board
Digimer <lists-5ZoueyuiTZiw5LPnMra/[email protected]>
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On 17/03/14 10:45 AM, James Knott wrote: > 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 crux of my argument was that a mainboard that includes an intel NIC will likely be built to an overall-higher standard. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education? -- 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