[NTLUG:Discuss] Motherboard for AMD Sempron 2800+ and 184-pin DDR RAM

[Richard Geoffrion]

Kevin E. Ivey wrote:

>Leroy Tennison wrote:
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>>I've almost had it with the VIA motherboard I shouldn't have purchased 
>>for use with Linux.  I'd like to re-use the CPU and RAM  (Corsair brand 
>>VS512MB400C3) so I'm looking for a motherboard which will use them. 
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>Find the ECS model that supports your CPU and RAM and all is well...
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WAIT! I remember that it was all ECS motherboards AND all VIA chipsets 
that are to be avoided!  ECS bad, BAD!  VIA bad, BAD!  Don't use it -- 
wouldn't be prudent!! 

NVIDIA good, ABIT good!

Issues: 

* ECS motherboards are inexpensive because they are cheep.  cheep = 
failures.  If you want an ECS mobo, I have several dead ones you can have.
* A recent rash of ASUS (and/or/may any via chipset)  mobos have a 
voltage problem due to a bad run of taiwanese capacitors.   This can 
show itself with SATA drives having 'issues'

That's what I remember, anyway.

-- 
Richard