While there are the obvious differences between the ECS GF8200A Black and ASRock K10N78FullHD-hSLI, both motherboards have many similar traits and had performed about the same under Linux. NVIDIA's GeForce 8200 (MCP78S) Chipset backs the GF8200A Black and K10N78FullHD-hSLI, which is both good and bad. This chipset provides integrated graphics that are competitive with AMD's 780G IGP, Hybrid SLI / Power for conserving energy consumption but switching to a high-performance dual GPU mode for demanding games, six Serial ATA 2.0 ports, and a horde of other capabilities. However, not all of these features are supported under Linux. If you wish to fully take advantage of the GeForce 8200 you must use their binary-only NVIDIA driver and that too lacks support for Hybrid SLI/Power, PureVideo HD, and many of the other advanced features. In addition, the MCP78S has Linux compatibility problems if not using a 2.6.25 kernel or newer.