Has any one any experience with the nForce 1 or 2 chipsets?
Do they work well? I just had my first experience with a motherboard
that lspci claims all the chipsets are AMD, Irongate?, and it has some
issues with shutdown and reboot...  

How do the nForce chipsets work? I'd love to get an nForce system with
an Athlon and nvidia vga.

nathan

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 12:56, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> 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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