On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 7:49 AM, km km@eficacy.com wrote:
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 3:47 PM, kamal km@eficacy.com wrote:
Mehul Ved wrote:
On 8/10/08, km kmorjal@gmail.com wrote:
MOTHERBOARD P5K64 WSLooking at the specifications[1], doesn't seem it may have serious problems, except if you're planning to use crossfire. I have no idea about crossfire support on linux.
i think it's SLI compatible.
GPU NVidia GeForce 9800 GT 512 MB (denied availability of all specific makes i mentioned; ZOTAC, XFX, ASUS) :(Try rashi peripherals[2]. But why are you buying a crossfire compatible board with a Nvidia graphics cards?
Both the nVidia graphic card and the specified MoBo are SLI compatible, although I won't be using it at least in the immediate future; i look forward to have a dual graphic card setup soon though. Therefore SLI. AFAIK, Crossfire is specific to ATI cards. I just hope I did my homework right :) Will check on this once more and will confirm.
Err! it appears like i didn't do my homework right! Thanks a ton again for pointing it out Mehul, you really saved a lot more than just my a.. :P I don't know when and how I missed it, but that was a disaster waiting to happen!!
P5K64 WS is not an SLI compatible board; neither is P5K WS. So am back to square one! I really owe you one for this Mehul! :) Many thanks!!
Sincere apologies to all for this. Big blunder on my part. Lesson learned! I think. Will get back with my selection of MoBo, this time, being careful.
-- Regards kamal morjal -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
Hmmm... Dear kamal,
I dunno if this is relevant, but i've been using a similarly configured workstation system, and think it's config may help you out. I've used it exclusively on fedora, and never had any issues with any of the components. Note, I bought this sytem before MAD announced it was opening up the ATI Chipset documentation, so shortly, i expect crossfire to be as well supported on linux, if not better than Nvidia SLI.
1. Mobo - Tyan Thunder n6650W, Dual socket AMD Opteron Compatible board, Dual Nvidia Chipset, and SLI Capable, with 2 pcie x16 , 2 pcie x8 , 2 pci-X 64 bit, 1 PCI 32 bit. 2. CPU - AMD Opteron 2212, 2.0 GHZ Dual Core, but the board can take 2 x Quad Core Opterons. 3. Memory - 4 x 1 GB 533 MHZ ECC Memory from Transcend 4. GPU - Geforce 8600GT 512 MB, though i've tried out SLI once with 2xGeforce 7300 256 MB. 5. Optical - Samsung OctoEdge 18x SATA DVD-RW Drive.(Dunno even, it's been about a year since i got my drive, and it's still going stromg.. as always, YMMV.)
This setup is Rock solid, and when mounted in a VIP cabinet, rather good looking even:P Plus, the possibility of going to 8 cores once i can get some moolah is what keeps me going :P
Regards, R. K. Rajeev