Re: [gentoo-user] Which motherboard ?

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

On Friday 17 December 2010 22:52:30 Jacques Montier wrote:
> Le 17/12/2010 21:45, Dale a gentiment tapote:
> 
> --
> Jacques
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> 
> > Mark Knecht wrote:
> >> I have no real opinion on that MB. I've never owned a Gigabyte so I
> >> don't have a real point of reference. I know other people here use
> >> them so I suspect they are fine.
> >> 
> >> I personally like the Asus brand for flashing BIOS as it can be done
> >> from a USB stick. If Gigabyte supports anything like that (i.e. -
> >> doesn't require Windows or DOS or a floppy to flash BIOS) then it's
> >> probably a good candidate.
> >> 
> >> Asus support isn't great. Their websites are slow and everyone seems
> >> to complain about lack of communication when they have problems.
> >> Again, I don't know anything about Gigabyte on that account.
> >> 
> >> Good luck.
> >> 
> >> - Mark
> > 
> > I recently bought a Gigabyte mobo and it has Q-Flash.  It will update
> > the BIOS without needing a OS.   According to the book, you just
> > download the update and put it on a USB stick, must be FAT32/16/12,
> > and hit the end key when the BIOS screen comes up.  It sounds pretty
> > easy.  I have not done this yet tho.
> > 
> > Hope that helps.
> > 
> > Dale
> > 
> > :-)  :-)
> 
> Thank you  Dale,
> 
> The Asus P6X58D-E motherboard seems ready for USB-3.0
> Does Linux support USB-3.0 technology ?

linux was the first OS to have usb3 drivers.

I own an Asus and it is crap. Which might be bad luck. But from all I read 
over the web and all the experiences in my social circles point to Gigabyte 
boards as the most stable, troubleless boards at the moment, while Asus' 
quality went down a lot.