Re: Via chipset

[Dan Hollis]

On 8 Aug 2001, Øystein Haare wrote:
> I'm planning on getting a new workstation, and I kinda want an AMD
> system. But it seems that most (all?) motherboards for the amd cpu's use
> VIA chipsets, and some people have experienced problems with via
> chipsets and linux.
> Have these problems been fixed, or are they still present?

It seems more dependent on the motherboard design than strictly the
chipset itself. For example the MSI K7T-Pro2A is a known good quantity (in
fact for me, it is the single most stable motherboard I have ever used and
that includes intel boards).

> would I be better off getting a P4 system?

Nope

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