yhlu wrote:
what's your MB brand and model?
It's an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe. Data (mostly guessed or searched on the web): Northbridge: NVIDIA nForce4 SLI Southbridge: NVIDIA CK804 (says lspci) / NVIDIA nForce4 SLI (says the doc) Socket 939 Award 4Mb Flash EEPROM Supports Athlon 64; Athlon 64 FX; Opteron 1xx for Socket 939
I hope you can find some more usable information at http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=15&l3=0&model=375&... http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=375&l1=3&l2...
The things making this motherboard attractive for me: - 8 SATA ports - 4 PCIe slots - 4 MB Flash EEPROM (should be big enough for LinuxBIOS) - 2 GBit LAN ports
The PCIe slots are most important because I plan to build some routers with half a dozen gigabit interfaces each and using PCI would severely limit performance.
Regards, Carl-Daniel