<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Florin Andrei <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:florin@andrei.myip.org">florin@andrei.myip.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Mitch Gore wrote:<br>
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> That will work find but this Asus board is cheaper (and i prefer Asus):<br>
> <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131214" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131214</a><br>
<br>
</div>Isn't the graphics chipset slower? (7050PV vs. 8200)<br>
<br>
I may end up using 1080i after all, but first I want to have a decent<br>
shot at trying 1080p as the main resolution for the frontend.<br>
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</font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Florin Andrei<br>
<br></div></div></blockquote></div> I bought a Biostar GF 8200 motherboard. I tried installing Ubuntu 8.04 but had problems with the SATA stuff (I got it installed by adding the all_generic_ide, and then installing. When it updated, I was able to get it running without the option. Unfortunately, when I installed the NVidia driver there was flicker in X, and the sound was completely garbled. I then installed Fedora 9, and got everything mostly installed, and working, mostly. Unfortunately, I still get crackling on the sound, and the X performance is very bad (even with the NVidia proprietary driver), and sometimes it doesn't even play back HD video correctly.<br>
<br>Has anybody gotten the 8200 motherboards working properly?<br><br>Matthew Asplund<br><br></div>