http://julien.danjou.info/blog/index.php/ Julien Danjou's blog fr Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:30:23 +0100 All Right Reserved http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Dotclear http://julien.danjou.info/blog/index.php/post/2007/08/15/i386-amd64#c3611 urn:md5:21d0df085a9b1e11e9cd136bc4ab074c Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:21:13 +0200 jd <p>Good to know, I did not knew that the CPU could scale down more.</p> <p>I was happy with my old Asus P4P800... <img src="/blog//themes/geeek.org/smilies/sad.png" alt=":(" class="smiley" /></p> http://julien.danjou.info/blog/index.php/post/2007/08/15/i386-amd64#c3414 urn:md5:3a45b8806e6ec3058e44ef532249d43b Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:27:10 +0200 directhex <p>Asus boards seem to be getting worse and worse - I have a home server with a top-end Asus inside it, which suffers from inadequate CPU frequency scaling (you ought to be seeing 1GHz or less on your Core 2, it's not going that low because Asus' ACPI implementation is busted)</p> <p>It also suffers from major issues with networking - see <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/88700" title="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/88700" rel="nofollow">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+...</a> and a whole host of similar bugs for example. Fishing furhter into the problem suggests Asus have written a completely broken firmware for their onboard networking.</p> <p>Unimpressed with the company.</p>