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#1 2008-04-20 13:52:28

wantilles
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From: Athens - Greece
Registered: 2007-03-29
Posts: 327

Installation of Arch x86_64 on nVidia 8200, 8300, 780a or AMD 780G

Installation of Arch x86_64 on nVidia 8200, 8300, 780a or AMD 780G chipsets.

Has anyone installed Arch x86_64 successfully on motherboards with the above chipsets, and the disk controllers in SATA AHCI mode?

I am thinking of bying one and put a Phenom B3 stepping 9x50 on it.

Also about ethernet interfaces:

Most of the above motherboards either have a Realtek 8111 PCI-e interface, or use the nVidia chipset one with an Atheros PHY.

Are the above supported?

And regarding the Atheros PHY, what does that mean?

I am going to use the nVidia forcedeth module or the Atheros one?



PS: I am also going to get 8GB of RAM.

I think this would not be a problem because x86_64 has a flat memory model. Is that correct?

PS2: Regarding Phenom:

Does the existing powernow-k8 supports it, for CPU throttling with cpufreq?

Last edited by wantilles (2008-04-20 13:56:18)

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#2 2008-07-22 21:24:10

Egokrypt
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Registered: 2008-07-22
Posts: 7

Re: Installation of Arch x86_64 on nVidia 8200, 8300, 780a or AMD 780G

I have an AMD 64x2 6000+ processor, AMD Chipset Motherboard, Realtek ethernet card (inbuilt), and a 512MB GeForce 8500 GT graphic card.
Installation of the OS was a breeze.
Installation of X was straightforward, and had no problems at all with  nVidia drivers or the ethernet card.

Hope this helps.


AMD dual core 64x2 6000+
512MB Nvidia GeForce 8500GT
1 GB RAM
480GB Hard disk capacity

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