A motherboard with Hybrid EFI technology...

[JR75018]

Hi,

I would like to start in dual-boot LinuxMint 64 bits (for me) / Xp 32 bits (for my wife) and to get enough power (AM3+ ?) to train in 3D graphic on Linux.

Is Hybrid EFI technology from Gigabyte the solution?

Thanks for you answers.

Jacques

[Vezina]

I am using a 970A-UD3 v1.0 with Hybrid.

I use W7, XP and a Linux (a month) on it

Tried Ubuntu ,Kubuntu ,Mint ,Simply Mepis and Open SUSE (mostly KDE stuff).

I also have on a MSI FM2 mobo a dual boot of Linux-es ,the board having UEFI .

So you can have them both ,XP and Linux, but i recommend you to play with an empty HDD until you discover the optimum partitioning.
You should use a /boot partition as primary so the Grub goes in there , so you have no issues ,no matter if the partitions used for the OS-es are logical or primary.

Keep in mind Linux Mint may not allow you to install proprietary GPU drivers properly, you will use the default Open GL ones.

  

[JR75018]

Thank you Vezina.

I will take care for the GPU.

Jacques