Suitable Motherboard for AMD FX4100

[francis jose]

Hi all,
I would like to configure a new desktop with the new AMD Bulldozer
FX4100 processor.
I would like to run GNU/Linux on it (distros like Debian,ubuntu,mint..).
So anybody please suggest a suitable Motherboard for the system.

ThankYou in advance,
Regards,
Francis Jose

[Saral Sasidharan]

Mostly Asus based AM3+ socket supported boards support FX4100 processor. M2N 68 are the cheapest boards available now . 

[kuttu]

what about Linux support..?

On Feb 7, 12:55 pm, Saral Sasidharan <saralsasidha...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Saral Sasidharan]

 Drivers of Asus MB is supported by most distro's

[bipin]

In terms Linux hardware support the best you can get out of the box is with Intel hardware esp the Motherboards by intel itself.

Since you have opted for AMD platform support for CPU and Chipset is good in linux, as long as you  use a distro that uses current kernel version

however in terms of driver support for Radeon GPUs (onboard or discrete)  under linux is still not upto the mark

There exists two types of drivers for Radeon GPU under linux. First one is OSS Radeon driver maintained by the community and sponsered by AMD (http://www.x.org/wiki/radeon), second is the catalyst driver which is the proprietary i.e closed source driver developed and maintained by AMD themselves.

  Featurewise i have found OSS driver is now good enough for regular usage like web browsing, video playback(not Full 1080p) etc and also all the compiz, Kwin bling :-) . however if you want to do any 3D intensive stuff like blender, gaming etc you will have stick to the Catalyst drivers since 3D support for OSS radeon is a work under progress