[gentoo-user] [OT] Intel D975X or NVidia 680i for stable, fast Linux box?

[gentoo-user] [OT] Intel D975X or NVidia 680i for stable, fast Linux box?

[Denis]

I'm looking into upgrading to Intel Core 2 Duo (or Quad) family -
perhaps the E6600 Conroe.  I'm trying to figure out which
motherboard/chipset would suit my needs best.  I'm planning to install
Gentoo Linux on the system, and I need it to be, first and foremost,
stable and reliable - mainly to be used for number crunching (e. g.,
Mathematica), simulations, etc...  No gaming.  I'm between getting an
Intel board with the D975X chipset and a board with the NVidia 680i
chipset.  Which of these chipsets is more favored in the Linux
community and which might do better with number crunching
applications?
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Intel D975X or NVidia 680i for stable, fast Linux box?

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Denis schrieb:
> I'm looking into upgrading to Intel Core 2 Duo (or Quad) family -
> perhaps the E6600 Conroe.  I'm trying to figure out which
> motherboard/chipset would suit my needs best.  I'm planning to install
> Gentoo Linux on the system, and I need it to be, first and foremost,
> stable and reliable - mainly to be used for number crunching (e. g.,
> Mathematica), simulations, etc...  No gaming.  I'm between getting an
> Intel board with the D975X chipset and a board with the NVidia 680i
> chipset.  Which of these chipsets is more favored in the Linux
> community and which might do better with number crunching
> applications?

Why not use the 965P-chipset on a board like the Intel DP965LT?
Should be a bit cheaper than the D975X and if you don't need the
RAID-functionality, this is a very good board for working purposes IMO.

The 965-chipset even beat the 975 in some benchmarks I read ...

I use one here with a E6600, running gentoo on a 2.6.21-kernel
(dynticks), and everything runs fine and stable.

You have to use a kernel >=2.6.20 or so if you want to use the
Marvell-PATA-Chip (for CD-ROM or so), but no problem with this, also all
the other features (sata, sound, usb, Gbit-LAN, cpu frequency scaling
...) work fine.

Dunno about the nvidia-chipset, I personally chose the Intel-board after
reading some tests in the german c't-magazine where it did score good
points and seemed to fit my needs for a decent workhorse here.

Greets, Stefan.


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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Intel D975X or NVidia 680i for stable, fast Linux box?

[Neil Bothwick]

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Hello Stefan G. Weichinger,

> Why not use the 965P-chipset on a board like the Intel DP965LT?
> Should be a bit cheaper than the D975X and if you don't need the
> RAID-functionality, this is a very good board for working purposes IMO.

Which board are you using?


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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Intel D975X or NVidia 680i for stable, fast Linux box?

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Neil Bothwick schrieb:
> Hello Stefan G. Weichinger,
> 
>> Why not use the 965P-chipset on a board like the Intel DP965LT?
>> Should be a bit cheaper than the D975X and if you don't need the
>> RAID-functionality, this is a very good board for working purposes IMO.
> 
> Which board are you using?

As mentioned above: Intel DP965LT.

Stefan
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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Intel D975X or NVidia 680i for stable, fast Linux box?

[Neil Bothwick]

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Hello Stefan G. Weichinger,

> >> Why not use the 965P-chipset on a board like the Intel DP965LT?
> >> Should be a bit cheaper than the D975X and if you don't need the
> >> RAID-functionality, this is a very good board for working purposes
> >> IMO.  
> > 
> > Which board are you using?  
> 
> As mentioned above: Intel DP965LT.

Doh! Too early in the morning for me :(

I was looking at a Gigabyte board but I'll give this one a look too.


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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Intel D975X or NVidia 680i for stable, fast Linux box?

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Neil Bothwick schrieb:
> Hello Stefan G. Weichinger,
> 
>>>> Why not use the 965P-chipset on a board like the Intel DP965LT?
>>>> Should be a bit cheaper than the D975X and if you don't need the
>>>> RAID-functionality, this is a very good board for working purposes
>>>> IMO.  
>>> Which board are you using?  
>> As mentioned above: Intel DP965LT.
> 
> Doh! Too early in the morning for me :(
> 
> I was looking at a Gigabyte board but I'll give this one a look too.

A Gigabyte board with the P965-chipset?

I have a comparison here with the Gigabyte 945P-DS3, somewhat cheaper
than the Intel, no firewire, and a bit slower in the SATA-benchmarks ...
and 4GB of RAM max, while the P965 accepts up to 8GB (depends on if one
needs that now or plans to use the board for quite a while ...)

Stefan


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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Intel D975X or NVidia 680i for stable, fast Linux box?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 07 May 2007 10:31:06 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:

> > I was looking at a Gigabyte board but I'll give this one a look too.  
> 
> A Gigabyte board with the P965-chipset?
> 
> I have a comparison here with the Gigabyte 945P-DS3, somewhat cheaper
> than the Intel, no firewire, and a bit slower in the SATA-benchmarks ...
> and 4GB of RAM max, while the P965 accepts up to 8GB (depends on if one
> needs that now or plans to use the board for quite a while ...)

The 945P-DS3P has Firewire and a faster FSB, but no one seems to have
them in stock at a decent price right now, so I'll keep looking.


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