Wanted: mobo recommendation

[rickenbacherus]

Well the new Kanotix is out and works great on the nforce board. It has the forcedeth driver! YEAH!

Here's the output from mbmon:

Temp.= 36.0, 58.5, 0.0; Rot.= 4500, 0, 0
Vcore = 1.68, 1.68; Volt. = 3.41, 4.81, 11.86, -16.19, -6.12

Now, go here and get FVCool103.tar.gz a very awesome app designed by a nuclear physics prof.
Run it an voila! a 28 degree difference! (YMMV)

Temp.= 30.0, 30.0, 0.0; Rot.= 4530, 0, 0
Vcore = 1.70, 1.70; Volt. = 3.39, 4.95, 11.49, -16.19, -6.12

More fans? We don't need no more stinkin fans. :P

Next I'll put the system under a load and see how she does.

[rickenbacherus]

Here are my nbench results:

============================== ALL STATISTICS ===============================
**Date and time of benchmark run: Thu Jan 15 14:23:54 2004
**Sizeof: char:1 short:2 int:4 long:4 u8:1 u16:2 u32:4 int32:4
**System used for compilation:
**Linux cromag 2.4.24-xfs-fe #1 Tue Jan 6 10:34:25 CET 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
**C compiler: gcc version 3.3.3 20031206 (prerelease) (Debian)
**libc: ld-2.3.2.so
**Date of compilation: Thu Jan 15 00:00:20 CET 2004
================================================== ===========================

TEST : Iterations/sec. : Old Index : New Index
: : Pentium 90* : AMD K6/233*
--------------------:------------------:-------------:------------
NUMERIC SORT : 922.8 : 23.67 : 7.77
Absolute standard deviation: 4.38862
Relative standard deviation: 0.475577 %
Number of runs: 5
Number of arrays: 3
Array size: 8111
Done with NUMERIC SORT

STRING SORT : 120.88 : 54.01 : 8.36
Absolute standard deviation: 1.3755
Relative standard deviation: 1.13791 %
Number of runs: 5
Number of arrays: 1
Array size: 8111
Done with STRING SORT

BITFIELD : 2.5534e+08 : 43.80 : 9.15
Absolute standard deviation: 1.47777e+06
Relative standard deviation: 0.578748 %
Number of runs: 5
Operations array size: 30
Bitfield array size: 32768
Done with BITFIELD

FP EMULATION : 85.366 : 40.96 : 9.45
Absolute standard deviation: 0.0762316
Relative standard deviation: 0.0892998 %
Number of runs: 5
Number of loops: 1
Array size: 3000
Done with FP EMULATION

FOURIER : 15641 : 17.79 : 9.99
Absolute standard deviation: 188.788
Relative standard deviation: 1.20698 %
Number of runs: 5
Number of coefficients: 100
Done with FOURIER

ASSIGNMENT : 16.341 : 62.18 : 16.13
Absolute standard deviation: 0.0272321
Relative standard deviation: 0.166647 %
Number of runs: 5
Number of arrays: 1
Done with ASSIGNMENT

IDEA : 2524.9 : 38.62 : 11.47
Absolute standard deviation: 3.49362
Relative standard deviation: 0.138367 %
Number of runs: 5
Array size: 4000
Number of loops: 100
Done with IDEA

HUFFMAN : 945.63 : 26.22 : 8.37
Absolute standard deviation: 1.66405
Relative standard deviation: 0.175973 %
Number of runs: 5
Array size: 5000
Number of loops: 100
Done with HUFFMAN

NEURAL NET : 21.886 : 35.16 : 14.79
Absolute standard deviation: 0.0238606
Relative standard deviation: 0.109021 %
Number of runs: 5
Number of loops: 1
Done with NEURAL NET

LU DECOMPOSITION : 864.88 : 44.81 : 32.35
Absolute standard deviation: 5.33966
Relative standard deviation: 0.617388 %
Number of runs: 5
Number of arrays: 2
Done with LU DECOMPOSITION

CPU usage:

956 glenn     20   0   440  440  252 R 98.3  0.0   3:39.54 nbench  
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The max temp attained while running nbench:

Temp.= 32.0, 47.5,  0.0; Rot.= 4500,    0,    0
Vcore = 1.70, 1.70; Volt. = 3.39, 4.95, 11.49, -16.19, -6.12

[oldgeezer]

It may be possible to drop the Vcore to, say, 1.65 if you are not contemplating serious o'cing. Worthwhile to try, as power/heat dissipation follows a square law. It would also be very useful to reduce that Vcore thermal loading. Are you still using phase-change interface material on your HSF? Nobody recommends that - use pure silver paint, nothing else, whether or not you apply FVCool!
OG.

[Rittersepp]

Shuttle Motherboard for AMD processors Model AN35N400-Ultra Retail
Specifications:
[...]
Onboard LAN: Realtek 8201BL 10/100 MBS Ethernet Model#: AN35N400

All well supported under Linux.

Hi!
I bought the same mainboard and it works well under Linux (SuSE 9.0), but i don't know how to get the onboard-lan to work.
the interface is not recognized automatically and i couldn't find any drivers in the internet -
how did you get it to work?

thanks for your help.

scnr
Rittersepp

[probono]

A friend of mine bought the ECS K7SOM with onboard Duron, Sound and Network for under $80 - and he told me it works great (and fast enough for him) under Knoppix... out of the box... just insert RAM and CD drive and there you go... suoper cheapo!

For example (this is not advertising, you can buy this everywhere even cheaper) http://www.shentech.com/ecsk7v7amdpr.html