I would have to second the Asus - I bought an A7N8X Deluxe (which includes Dual 10/100 LAN instead of whatever the X has- check, one may be better for you than the other) I bought from newegg.com about 6 months ago for $125 - the nForce2 chipset works under Linux fully, binary drivers only but oh well. I picked up a ATI 9600XT last week from Circut City for $150 after rebates - if not that then a 9600PRO should do just fine for quite some time, unless you want cheaper, then I'd get a GeForce 4 or 5200 - had a GeForce 4 Ti4200 128MB in the ASus (selling to move to smaller case) and a 5200FX in my brother's eMachine, no problems with either one. Best way to determine if the board works with Linux is to simply google for the chipsets. Usually if there's drivers for the chipsets, that specific motherboard will work just fine. -----Original Message----- From: Eric Stanley <barnabas at knicknack.net> To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:41:08 -0600 Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Recommendations for a mobo I've been quite happy with the couple Asus A7V8X-X mobos I've purchased recently. It has onboard network and sound. The only drawback is that they work best with ALSA sound drivers (instead of OSS). This particular version is for AMD processors, but I would guess they'd have an Intel version. I also got an off-brand (EVGA) nvidia GeForce4 MX440 based video card. It works quite well as long as you can put up with the binary only drivers. I got mine at newegg.com. I was impressed with their shipping speed. On Monday 19 January 2004 18:28, Kent Schumacher wrote: > My stepson is tired of using the piece-of-crap > computer I made for him out of a previously > seriously cooked motherboard, so I'm in the market > for a new motherboard and video card. > > I'm looking for a mobo, a video card, and about > 512K or RAM, and I want to get it at General > Nano. I want it to have slots for an AGP card, > Network card, TV card, sound card, and 3ware > RAID card. My budget is $300. > > Obviously if quality sound, video, and NIC are on > the motherboard and fully supported by linux, I would > use those rather than my existing cards. > > I couldn't give a flying **** about Windows compatibility. > Only Linux matters. > > So, what do all of you recommend? > > Kent > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list