Motherboard compatibility - AMD, Intel

[laurent.bellegarde]

Hi Fernando

I'm a bit suprised about your troubles.

Here, all the team have never met a AMD based motherboard, and more an 
Athlon64 x2 one which wasn't working with Ubuntu Studio !!!

What is exactly your problem ?

I'm sure there is a solution to fix...

Does your computer work with a live Ubuntu CD ?

You can install Ubuntu with a live CD and then upgrade your hard disk 
installation by using Internet and asking for all Ubuntu studio packages.

For material, few things,

The best motherboards are Asus and MSI.

Asrock is a trademark of Asus, but with lower quality, usually, not very 
solid.

Celeron even in dual core, are very very slower than AMD Athlon 64 x2 
processors for multimedia uses under GNU/Linux...

If you still want to buy and Intel plateform, you should take a 
motherboard from ASUS + Core2 Duo or better.

The best quality/performances/price is AMD.

Hope it helps,

Laurent
lprod.org

Le 26/04/2010 13:14, Fernando Gomes a écrit :
> Hello all!
>
> I've changed my system due to compatibility problems with
> ubuntustudio, but still have similar problems with the new one. Both
> have Athlon 64 x2 processors, one has a MSI motherboard, other an
> Elite motherboard. With the current 10.04 release (not final) I have
> also similar problems (it doesn't even boot this time, after
> installing the OS). I remember a previous discussion recommending the
> use of Intel processors. So it seems I have to change my motherboard
> and CPU again, now for an Intel :-(
>
> What are your recommendations for an inexpensive Intel based
> configuration, able to run Ubuntustudio? It must be inexpensive, it
> will be my third motherboard and CPU for my homestudio, if it isn't
> inexpensive my wife will kill me :-)
>
> I've saw some inexpensive motherboard+cpu bundles, with an ASROCK
> G31M-S motherboard and an Intel E3300 CPU, do you think this dual core
> celeron has enough power to have some realtime effects running well
> (p.e. rackarrack)? And with this hardware should I expect some
> compatibility issues with ubuntustudio?
>
> Thanks and best regards
>
> Fernando
>
>