Looking 4 Good Asus MOBO Pentium D For Fedora

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I would like to run a simple dual core Pentium D

[stevea]

FWIW I strongly prefer Asus over MSI & Gigibyte for Mobos. I love my recent P5B deluxe ~ 7 months old. I can overclock the heck out of it (my 2.66Ghx e6700 is stable not quite to 4Ghz) or else turn down the voltages and run for low power as I usually do. Very stable board and easy to configure bios with two saved bios configs. The P5W looked attractive too at a bit higher price. My older P4C800E is still strong tho' elderly.

I suggest you avoid any non-Intel Northbridge parts, many work but some don't. Do check the drivers for the enets and audio & disk interfaces. I did some timing & cpu loading tests RAID0 in bios vs in software(Linux kernel) last January and the performance was a wash in all respects, just marginally faster in the kernel on long reads - but the Linux software raid is portable (if your board gets torched you can recover your files on another system). No so the Bios raid. Don't bother considering whether the bios supports raid.

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Thanks stevea, I have a dell 9100 and I was thinking of using it for fedora core 7 . I'm currently running fedora core 7 through vmware workstation 6. I figured I would do it this way to learn fedora.
Dell 9100 3.2 dual core (intel mobo)
4gb pc-5300 memory
2 x 250gb sata 1.5 gb
ati x600 graphics (its ok)
audigy 2 sound
You think I will have any issues putting fedora core 7 on here?
I was thinking of building a quadcore system for vista.