I sure could use some help from the pros on selecting which mobo to buy.<br><br>This weekend, my trusty Asus Socket A motherboard gave up the ghost (capacitors) so I'm going to replace her with a cheap socket 754 mobo for now. Then will go to AM2 down the road.<br><br>I'm choosing socket 754 because I couldn't find any s939 mobos that fit my criteria:<br>Asus or MSI<br>ATX not mATX<br>3+ PCI slots (2 PVR 150s and a possible 3rd card)<br>Fanless chipset<br><br>And not AM2 because, I did a little research on the AM2 chipsets but they still seem not mature enough for a linux non-guru such as myself. Seems like I see a lot of issues still.<br><br><br>So, with that said, which of these 3 socket 754 boards would you recommend as best for my setup?<br><br>-Myth 0.20 running on Fedora Core 5<br>-Combined FE/BE<br>-MSI NVidia FX5200 AGP w/ S-video out<br>-SD TV viewing/recording. No HD planned.<br>-250 GB WD Caviar IDE HDD<br>-512MB RAM<br><br><br>Choice #1: ASUS K8V-X SE (VIA
K8T800 chipset; 3COM integrated NIC)<br> http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=14&l3=67&model=790&modelmenu=2<br> <br>Choice #2: ASUS K8N (nForce3 250 chipset; Marvell integrated NIC)<br>http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=14&l3=66&model=233&modelmenu=2<br><br>Choice #3: ASUS K8N-E (nForce3 250 chipset; Marvell integrated NIC). Not sure what the -E means.<br>http://usa.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=14&l3=66&model=772&modelmenu=2<br><br>Question re VIA versus Nvidia chipset:<br>I keep reading how there are issues between ivtv and VIA chipsets, but the various pages I found which list the conflicting VIA chipsets do not match the K8T800. Otherwise I would go with the nVidia chipset mobos.<br>The other reason for choice #1 is: Choices #2/3 have *Marvell* integrated NICs. IIRC, there were issues with Fedora not seeing these during setup, so you had to pop in a PCI NIC until you could do a yum
update?<br><br><br>Thanks for the help... I've been sitting on this decision for 2 days now (after doing 1 week of research online, searching, reading old posts, etc.)<br>