[kwlug-disc] How to choose a new motherboard

[Darcy Casselman]

New CPU is a given with a new motherboard.  No new motherboard is going to
support my ~5 year old AMD CPU.

I have vague computer shopping heuristics established about 15 years ago.
I could go with them, but I was hoping the Internet was working to solve
these problems.

There's CPUBoss (http://cpuboss.com), but Waterloo's own Sortable, but I'm
finding their results unreliable, since their product links often link to
the wrong CPU, and that's how they figure out pricing.  I'm sure someone
posted another comparison site (here or possibly on a Kwartzlab list), but
my email searching is turning up nothing useful.

Darcy.


On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 11:59 PM, William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
wrote:

> It's crapshoot.  I choose Asus motherboard, from past experience and the
> length of support.  If you're looking to upgrade CPU, then I'd recommend
> Intel.
> --
> William
>
> On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 11:19:27PM -0400, Darcy Casselman wrote:
> > I'm getting random drive errors on multiple drives on my old desktop
> > machine (SMART tests say OK).  So I'm guessing the drive controller's
> > failing on the motherboard.  So it's time to get a new one.
> >
> > It's been a while since I last bought a motherboard/CPU.  I was wondering
> > if anyone knew of any decent resources to figure out (a) how well various
> > motherboards/chipsets respect my freedom (or even, say, can I run Ubuntu
> on
> > them without too much hassle), (b) whether they're any good or not or
> even
> > (c) what the various socket/chipset/CPU names represent these days.  I
> have
> > no idea.
> >
> > I'm googling, but if you've got any favourite sites, I'm happy to hear
> > about them.
> >
> > Darcy.
>
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