Now Asus K8V Deluxe, was: [Any issues with MSI K8T-NEO-FIS2R?]

[Gene Czarcinski]

On Friday 27 February 2004 12:38, Ashley Gittins wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 03:03 pm, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > We (Pogo Linux) sold a customer a MSI K8T when they first came out, with
> > the understanding that we hadn't done any R&D on it and the customer was
> > going to be testing it out.  The customer had horrible results, and
> > basically an unusable system in 64bit Linux.  However, recent purchasers
> > of this board report that no problems are found.  Most likely it's due to
> > an early revision that bios flashing cannot repair.
> >
> > We (Pogo again) have since moved on and selected the Asus K8V Deluxe
> > systemboard for our Athlon64 system.  This board offers a 3com GigE nic
> > that works w/ Linux (sk98lin), two sets of SATA ports that work with
> > Linux (sata_promise, sata_via), audio that works with Alsa, and a very
> > fast platform.  The price isn't all that much different from the MSI
> > K8T-Neo.
>
> Thanks for the pointers Jesse and Robert. Thanks also to those letting me
> know their opteron/FX configs - some useful info on vendor support if not
> for my chosen cpu.
>
> Yes, here in Australia the k8v is only $14 more. As to speed, all the
> benchmarks I've seen place them neck and neck, but having gigE and a
> supported onboard sound chip, plus confirmed sata support all sound pretty
> good to me. Nice also is the wifi riser, which I can get here as an add-on
> for AU$30 or so - not that i've seen any evidence of linux support for it
> yet.
>
> Robert, your point about static on the via sound chip was one thing that
> had me planning to use my SBLive in the new system - my previous experience
> with via sound chips had me a little worried about the whole via thing.
> Hopefully it's only an issue with (some of?) their sound codecs.
>
> I've since found some comments that indicate the corsair DDR400 low-latency
> ram works well on the k8v, which was my only remaining reservation on the
> asus board. As such I think you've convinced me, Jesse :-)
>
> Unless of course anyone has some dire warnings about the k8v _socket754_
> board....

I have an ASUS SK8V which supports the Opteron and Athlon64 FX and am very 
pleased with it.  I believe that the K8V is similar except that it supports 
the Athlon64.

Gene