On Wednesday 06 December 2006 15:04, Rajesh Rajani wrote:
Last month I got myself a Core 2 Duo E6600 (Rs. 16,500/-) with a DG965RY mobo (Rs. 7,300/-) and 1 GB DDR2-533 RAM (Rs. 4,750/-). All from Lamington Road.
Wow thats a costly rig. Why did you settle for DDR2-533 when your processor supports a DDR2-800? How much does the E6400 cost? I have to fit the CPU + motherboard + RAM in my budget of around Rs.17000. I guess I might have to settle for 512MB RAM then... Which shop did you buy the components from? Can you give me their contact details?
This motherboard has 1 IDE and 4 SATA ports. The IDE is powered by the Marvell PATA chipset which is not yet very well supported in the Linux world so when you connect a CD/DVD drive here, the installation doesn't find the installation CD/DVD. I've tried Knoppix 5.0.1, Ubuntu 6.06 and Suse 10.1 64-bit.
Aww then this board is pretty useless to me since I need atleast 2 IDE channels. I have 3 PATA disks and 1 SATA disk!
Haven't gone further than this, but searching the net doesn't show up any other googlies for this board with Linux.
Thanks a whole lot for your feedback! It was invaluable to me :)