Re: : New mom board
Bob Jonkman <[email protected]>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 James Knott wrote: > video is more of a concern. If so, I would expect a consumer board to have better video than a server board - what server needs more than a text console? Adding a "gaming" video card is probably a better choice for high quality, high speed video. But I have my doubts about Linux compatibility for "gaming" video cards. - --Bob, who stopped knowing hardware specs when the Pentium was invented On 14-03-17 11:09 AM, Digimer wrote: > 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. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Ensure confidentiality, authenticity, non-repudiability iEYEARECAAYFAlMnInEACgkQuRKJsNLM5ep3oACgpD9tYQqFphNqZV+6XFXtigdf 6y8Anjo1pd555r3sx0tdLeJGEM7vx7V0 =LLcp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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