Mobo got hosed. Any recommendation?

[Mike]

Fajar Priyanto wrote:
> Hello all,
> My old and loyal desktop PC at home got hosed recently after years of 
> servicing my - sometimes "brutal" - experiments on it. It's a Gigabyte GA7xx  
> something (VIA chipset) with AMD Athlon 1GHz.
> 
> I'm looking for a replacement. Something very economical in terms of pricing 
> and it should be very friendly with Linux. And as a "nice to have" feature is 
> preferably the display adapter will be able to run Beryl.
> 
> Any recommendations are welcome :)
> Thank you.
> 

I use a  GIGABYTE GA-M61P-S3. Its an AMD Socket AM2 board with 
an NVIDIA chipset and an integrated GeForce 6100 video adapter 
on board. It's not real cheap at $76.00 but Ubuntu Feisty 
recognized everything on the board (SATA, Audio, Video, LAN, 
etc...) with no extra effort on my part.

The only CON with this board is that if you are using PATA 
drives, there's only one IDE port so only 2 devices are 
supported. It's got 4 SATA ports though which is nice.

Also, I added a PCI Express video adapter (nVidia GeForce 7300 
LE) because I had less than stellar performance with the 
onboard video and 3D enabled. I bought the board from 
Newegg.com. Best price I could find for it (with shipping and 
handling costs).

If you want something to support the CPU that you already 
have, you'll have to look on ebay for that.

Mike