John Paulson wrote:

Can someone make a recommedation as far as best chipset for Centos 5.0 or 5..1 using a Q6600 series CPU with chipsets that have onboard VGA? From poking around it looks like the G33 and P35 are not supported or have problems until the newer 2.6.22 kernel (the iso's appear to be earlier than that, think it was .18)? So I am considering boards with the Intel G965 chipset but not sure if is supported yet? Can someone make a recommedation as far as best chipset for this scenario? thx -- John

P35 with ICH9R works OK (the R in ICH9R is the important bit). The RAID capable chipsets also support AHCI mode and the native CentOS kernel driver for AHCI works very well. *Some* non-R ICH9 based boards also have the AHCI mode present in the BIOS but many don't - the chipset does support it but many vendors choose not to implement it in their BIOS so it's a bit of a lottery. Entry level boards with integrated graphics tend to be ICH9, not ICH9R.

I don't have any direct experience with other chipsets so am unable to comment on those.