From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1R958d-0000cF-SI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:10:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 13E4421C0AB; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:10:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from s1.itech7.com (s1.itech7.com [94.76.222.184]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D07821C042 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 01:09:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by s1.itech7.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D9CD3E60 for ; Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:39:02 +0530 (IST) Message-ID: <4E83C52F.40201@nileshgr.com> Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 06:39:03 +0530 From: Nilesh Govindarajan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/6.0.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Motherboard support? References: <4E835F61.30207@nileshgr.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 77f0418e36cd0be4fab6954a48c2cf5f On 09/29/2011 03:21 AM, masterprometheus wrote: > 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? > > Neither 880G nor SB710 is a new chipset, so they should work out of the > box. But you may want to wait. Bulldozers will be out at October 12, and > their prices won't very different than Phenom II's. And FX-8120, expected > to be priced around $200 will be an 8-core, faster and better > overclocker. > > > > Bulldozers coming out in October 12, I'll better wait then. It has much better virt support. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com