[TriLUG] Motherboard Recommendations

[Marc Wiatrowski]

I currently own an older Asus with the nvidia SLI chipset.  I can't
really comment on the SLI as I have never gotten around to getting a
second video card.

I will say that I have had problems with Asus mother boards frying
and/or just not powering up anymore.  Its been 3 times now and it always
seems to be just after the warranty or if there is a visible "fried" 
component on the board it voids the warranty.  This is after doing 
nothing spectacular with the box, its on a UPS, and I have swapped out
seemingly working power supplies.  Two other computers in the house
have been running just as long or longer and have had no problems.  
(One not even on a UPS, one's and MSI, other being something from Dell)

The only reason I keep sticking with the Asus on this box is that the
drives are raided on the motherboard and at the time, just want it 
to work again.

marc

 


On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 09:22 -0400, Brian Blater wrote:
> I have the opportunity to upgrade my system and have been looking at
> some new motherboards and processors. I'm mainly looking at the AMD
> AM2 processors and the Nvidia 590SLI chipset (but I have the
> possibility of getting something with the Nvidia 570SLI chipset).
> 
> Anyways, I've been offered these two motherboards: Asus Crosshair or
> the Gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5. I've been doing some research on these two
> boards and finding a few comments or reviews but they are from about a
> year ago. Back then the problem seemed to be related to some ACPI
> problems. Not sure if those have been resolved yet or not.
> 
> So, I wanted to go to the experts and see if anyone has used either of
> these boards recently and what their experience has been. Any install
> issues or post install problems? Everything working for you? My OS of
> choice would be openSUSE, but I've used Kubuntu also.
> 
> Thanks for your comments.
> Brian