Go Intel CPU, and Intel IDE controller.  Check out:

	www.tayan.com
	www.asus.com.tw

I used many different Gigabyte motherboards, I am very
disappointed with their latest offerings, quality is 
well down.  I used/using ASUS and Tayan motherboards in
around 15 Unix servers (all dual Intel CPUs), and at
least for different Unixes - no problems.  Both have
m/b with RAID.

Ioan Nemes



Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> 
> > > in BIOS?
> >
> > Yes but the problem is it changes the way the whole IDE conroler works thus
> 
> "way the whole IDE controller works"??
> 
> it works the same way...
> 
> > can't be considered a straight IDE conroler.
> >
> > > > > i815 based motherboard looks stable for me and fast .
> > > >
> > > > Why go for an Intel CPU? They're expencive & slow.
> > >
> > > expensive - yes.
> >
> > > it's 100% intel compatible :)
> > by definition... but I still quiry the P4 being intel compatable.
> 
> i was talking about PIII. P4 looks like joke to me. not faster and lots of
> bugs.
> 
> >
> > > it's slow - not true.
> > P-III 1.2Ghz v's Athlon 1.2Ghz; P-III is 5%<15% slower
> > P4 1.2Ghz v's Athlon 1.2Ghz; P4 is 10<75%/infinitly slower:
> > P4 1.2Ghz v's K6-2 500 (@ 600Mhz); P4 is -300%<25%/Infinirlty slower
> > Ah I never can get over that last benchmark
> >
> > > i wouldn't buy any VIA and/or AMD based hardware... especially VIA
> > ¿Why?
> 
> i like stable systems