[linux-audio-user] 64-bit AMD dual core mobo recommendations ?

[lanas]

Folks,

  First of all, I always appreciate reading the comments and replies to
the questions.  They are very useful.  

  Recently there was a thread about a AMD64 setup but there was no
clear mention of specific mobos that Simply Works.  So I'd like to have
recommendations from folks who actually are running successfully an AMD
dual-core processor.

  I presently have a MSI K8N Neo4 SLI mobo and it's certainly not
working well.  I sent it also to California during the MSI recall for
the dual-core update.  Didn't change much:

  - USB does not work

  - Audio is only stereo (although it annouces 7.1 - not very
    encouraging)

  - SuSE 10.0 (and 9.3) gets confused about the two ethernet ports
    I have to fix them manually.

  - SATA Raid support is software-based (even though it has two
    different HW interfaces)

  - Audacity sometimes says it can't play any audio (could be an OS
    thing)

  Firewire works, as well as everything else ;-)  So I use it, and I
like the speed, especially with the 4 GB of RAM.  I have a Zalman fan,
and, very quiet power supply, amd quiet case fans, so it's not too bad.

  But I would like to get a mobo with which everything works and on
which it is possible to expand (eg. adding a M Audio card for instance)
with problems.  Hardware SATA raid would be a plus, but I can live with
SW raid.

  Anyone out there effectively using an AMD dual-core CPU with a 64-bit
mainboard for MIDI sequencing and audio recording purposes without
having to fiddle around a good percentage of the time ?

  If so, I'd like to get the exact mobo description and I'll do
everything to get one exactly like that.  Please also tell which distro
is used.

Thanks !

Al