[TriLUG] am2 mobo

[Neil L. Little]

My requirements were similar to yours Jason.
I am in the last stages of receiving  the last components for the 
workstation I am building (mobo/processor).
My choice of a mobo came down between  an MSI-k9n4-sli and an ASUS 
M2N-E-SLI (ASUS was the final
choice combined with an Athlon X2 6000 processor).

My choice for these particular Mobo were partially driven because these 
have 2 parallel ide ports I went this direction
because my number crunching showed I could build a work station cheaper 
using pata drives instead of sata drives.

Anand Tech and Toms hardware spoke fairly positively about these mobos 
as well.

Neil Little, WA4AZL
JARS Forever!!

Jason Tower wrote:
> getting ready to build a new workstation, in the ever-changing world of hardware
> can anyone recommend a socket am2 motherboard that they're particularly happy
> with under linux?  video will be handled by an external card (something with 
> dual dvi and no bloody fans) so i mainly just care about stability and the other 
> ancillary features like ethernet, audio, etc being supported natively.
>