10.4.6 or .5 on MSI PM8M-V Via P4M800 + VT8237?

[loudog3114]

I am going to be using a normal paralell IDE controller for my dvd rom and hard rive. I have heard the NIC is useless, and I have another NIC I know will work. For video card I have an 8500DV, which I know doesnt have QE/CI support yet which is fine. I am going to be using a Celeron D 2.93 with SSE3 support. Basically, I want to know what drivers/mods/etc I will have to make to have this system working optimally. Last time I installed 10.4.5 I got abysmal hard drive scores in xbench, which I assume is realted to the via ide controller?

 

CPU

 

• Supports Intel® Pentium 4 / Prescott (Socket 478) processor.

• FSB@800/533MHz

• Supports Intel P4 Prescott CPU up to 3.4GHz above, and intel P4 Prescott Celeron CPU

 

Chipset

 

• VIA® P4M800 Chipset

- 64bit P4 processors FSB 800MHz

- 64bit DDR SDRAM memory I/F (333/400MHz)

- 32bit AGP I/F (66MHz) for 8x/4x mode

- 8bit V-Link I/F (66MHz) with peak bandwidth of 266MB/s

 

• VIA® VT8237 Chipset (487 BGA)

- Integrated Hardware Sound Blaster/Direct Sound AC97 audio

- Ultra DMA 66/100/133 master mode PCI EIDE controller

- ACPI & PC2001 compliant enhanced power management

- Supports USB2.0 up to 8 ports