Recent content by ngolian

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    Sound quality on recommended mATX boards

    Thanks, but I went ahead and ordered the Asus P5L-MX. I'm a bit shy of the latest chipsets because of Linux drivers. Looks like everything on that except the graphics would work, but it would be a bit of a gamble that thhat would be supported by the time I want to use it without a PCI-E card...
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    Sound quality on recommended mATX boards

    That Gigabyte's a nice board, but it's expensive and again there's a potential problem with Linux drivers for that sound chip. I would wait but I need the board ASAP (unless the fault in my old system turns out to be the PSU rather than the CPU or motherboard - it's a speaking Asus BIOS and it...
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    Sound quality on recommended mATX boards

    I'm trying to choose a new motherboard and I was pointed towards this forum and the list of recommended boards. For now I'll be using it in my main PC with a PCI-E graphics card, but at my next upgrade in a year or two I'd like to use it in my HTPC, so I'd like to use an mATX board. Both run...