Posted on Wednesday, January 02 2008 @ 0:45 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Back in November AMD had launched their "Spider platform",
which is made up of AMD's first quad-core processor, ATI Radeon HD 3800
series graphics, and the AMD 7-Series chipsets. While we were quick to
cover the ATI Radeon HD 3850 and 3870 graphics under Linux, today after
much testing we are finally delivering our first Linux report from AMD's
new 790FX Chipset. Is the chipset that's designed for PC enthusiasts and
performance seeking overclockers worth anything under Linux? Does this
chipset even work with the latest Linux desktop distributions? We'll be
answering these questions and more, as we look at the Gigabyte
MA790FX-DS5 motherboard.
Read on
at Phoronix.
