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

[Leroy Tennison]

Gilbert Morrow wrote:
> SIS cheap and OK but like nVIDIA the best , use to be a VIA fanboy but VIA
> lost it crown to nVIDIA some time back , but have read that the VIA EPIA is
> very Linux friendly board but it is just 1.0 to 1.3 ghz processor , my two
> cents , go with nVIDIA chip .
> ECS is a good mainboard had one for a couple of years replaced with a
> Shuttle SFF and then gave it to a friend (ECS board) who is running it right
> now and still works fine .
>
> On 7/12/06, Kevin E. Ivey <ik04 at isot.com> wrote:
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>> Richard Geoffrion wrote:
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>>> Kevin E. Ivey wrote:
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>>>> 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.
>>>>> <snip>
>>>>>
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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.
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>>> * 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.
>>>
>>>       
>> Get the ECS board with a SiS chipset and it just works...
>>
>> I have had no problem with ECS boards and have several running now.  I
>> prefer SIS chipsets and ECS gives me what I want.
>>
>> My laptop and four home PCs all run with no problems.  I have Athlon,
>> Athlon64 and Athlo Dual Core systems running with various versions of
>> the 700- series SIS chipsets.
>>
>> They are cheap, but work just as well as the overpriced ones I have also
>> bought from Fry's and Tiger Direct...
>>
>> YMMV,
>>
>> Kevin
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Thanks to all for their responses.  It had occurred to me that the issue 
might not be the motherboard but the VIA chipset.  Where do I buy the 
ECS motherboard and roughly what should I expect to pay?  I've found a 
Gigabyte motherboard on the Web which has SIS as one of it's chipsets, 
anyone know anything about them?