From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HkxzY-0000C7-Lq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 07 May 2007 07:50:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l477mTLs021968; Mon, 7 May 2007 07:48:29 GMT Received: from zion.lichtfels.com (zion.lichtfels.com [88.198.33.170]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l477iMaq017302 for ; Mon, 7 May 2007 07:44:22 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zion.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00AA51842A8 for ; Mon, 7 May 2007 09:44:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from zion.lichtfels.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zion [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with LMTP id 22506-10 for ; Mon, 7 May 2007 09:44:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [172.32.99.12] (mail.oops.co.at [213.129.238.225]) by zion.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FBA3184271 for ; Mon, 7 May 2007 09:44:20 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <463ED8D3.1080708@xunil.at> Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 09:44:19 +0200 From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" Organization: oops! User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070426) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Intel D975X or NVidia 680i for stable, fast Linux box? References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-maia at lichtfels.com X-Archives-Salt: 25146af2-528b-4ad4-8843-5eaca10cea06 X-Archives-Hash: 98322066e282ad6c3647bb501a2e2447 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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list