Conclusion
The motherboard is nice, very nice with the inclusion of 6 PCI slots you can't complain, and the ability to have different clock speeds for the memory and FSB this is also a positive, and it's stability is excellent. This board is defiantly a board to take seriously if you want excellent control and stability.The NVIDIA drivers as you can see provide amazing performance, they are easy to install and provide quite frankly the best 3D in Linux you can get - yes the drivers are closed source (all other cards are open source), but would you trade of the performance for open source? I know I wouldn't, the NVIDIA drivers are about a year ahead of all the other drivers under Linux interims of features and performance. They also benefit from the amazing driver writers that NVIDIA have. Whereas 3dfx had the lead of 3D under Linux a year ago, NVIDIA have done a very good job with these. If you are interested in talking to people to do with the drivers, fire up your IRC client and head over to irc.openprojects.net,
Linux has a way to go, driver installation is still an art form of it's own, but it's getting there - and with drivers like these from NVIDIA means that more games will be falling across from windows to Linux. This is another good thing as you get alot more choice in what you run. To get some of the more exotic features like USB to work under Linux a development kernel would had to have been used but was not available at the time.
