[kwlug-disc] How to choose a new motherboard

[William Park]

I found those comparison not very useful.  For example, when I was
searching for AMD motherboard, my option was Gigabyte and Asus.  They
had the same spec, but Gigabyte couldn't boot with all its PCIe slots
filled whereas Asus did.  No "comparison website" is going to test that.

On Intel side, the latest chipset is H97 and Z97.  Besides the usual
i3/i5/i7, there is Pentium/Celeron options.  AMD is a little cheaper,
and easier to choose (ie. less choice).
-- 
William

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 12:14:36AM -0400, Darcy Casselman wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > kwlug-disc mailing list
> > > kwlug-disc at kwlug.org
> > > http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org
> >
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > kwlug-disc mailing list
> > kwlug-disc at kwlug.org
> > http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org
> >

> _______________________________________________
> kwlug-disc mailing list
> kwlug-disc at kwlug.org
> http://kwlug.org/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org