Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboard support?

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
> I'll be soon getting a new desktop.
> I've fixed the CPU as AMD Phenom II 1075T
>
> These two motherboards came to my notice which support the above
> processor: Gigabyte 880GM - GA 880GM-USB3L&  880GM-USB3
>
> How good is Linux support with those? If bad, what other mobos support
> 1075T and Linux support is awesome?
>

I used this site to get this:

http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/Giga-byte/GA-880GM-USB3

That's one of them and I think I saw another one from your list.  May I 
make a suggestion tho.  It looks like those have a built in video 
system, get a separate video card.  Of all the video issues I have ever 
had on Linux, it has been built in video cards.  There are other good 
reasons for this too, heat being one of them.

As to Gigabyte as a brand, I have a 770 based mobo and it works great.  
It's worth every penny and then some.  I have also had good luck with 
Abit several years ago.  I have installed on a MSI before too and it was 
stable.

If you want to research other mobos, start here:

http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/

There are two ways to do this.  If you have the mobo and can, paste the 
output of lspci -n in the box.  If you are researching and don't have 
the mobo yet, click on the links on the left to see if the one you are 
looking for is in the list.  When researching a mobo, I find that site 
invaluable to say the least.

Hope that helps.

Dale

:-)  :-)