On Friday 30 April 2004 17:03, you wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 10:48:54AM -0400, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> > Any thoughts on this?
>
> I purchased an MSI KT6 Delta-LSR motherboard with a Mushkin Basic Green
> PC3200 512MB DIMM (non-bundled) from NewEgg several months ago.  I'd
> recommend it.  I'm going to going an additional DIMM very shortly and
> probably get a 3200+ processor before too long.  It works just fine
> under Linux.  I can't speak about the sound and network, though, as I'm
> not using them since I already had a sound card and network card I
> liked.  One potential gotcha, depending on how you want to use the
> system and which kernel you want to run on it, is that the chipset's AGP
> functionality isn't supported in 2.4 (at least not at the time, but I
> doubt that's chnaged in the release or two since then), but it is in
> 2.6.  On the plus side, it has six USB 2.0 ports built in and a header
> for two more in the case.  I have had no stability issues with it.

Wow, a lot has changed in a year.  They put so much on the boards now that 
the 3 PCI slots may actually be adequate for my needs (I usually look for 
4-5.)  I assume your reference to the AGP functionality means that the 
on-board video is not supported in 2.4, although I suppose if it has an AGP 
slot I can also get my own video card if I want.

I'm not familiar with MSI, but they seemed to have good ratings on the NewEgg 
site.  I heard some good things about ABIT as well, I wonder how that stacks 
up.  I'm not really slamming Soyo, and I may just buy another one of those.  
As I said before, I think my main problem was buying too-cheap memory.  
Although the mobo does seem to have one problem - it sometimes hangs on a 
warm reset, and needs instead to be powered all the way down.  But that 
problem too has seemed less common since I took the bad DIMM out.

One thing I'd like to do again, though, if the price is right, is buy it 
bundled.  Mwave, for example, charges $9 to assemble and test.  It's 
definitely something I can do myself, but if it saves me the hassle of a 
return I'm all for it.   Part of my problem is that the bundle itself only 
included 512MB RAM, so I bought the second DIMM separately - and that's the 
one that was flakey.  (Unfortunately, it wasn't flakey enough, so I didn't 
identify it as the problem until a year down the line.)

Vaughn

>
> If you're interested, the NewEgg part numbers with which you can search
> are 13-130-428 and 20-146-219.  (The motherboard is only available
> there, last I checked, as a refurb; I bought mine as a new product.)

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