Advise on motherboard purchase

[Kai Presler-Marshall]

If you're going to get a motherboard with integrated ATI graphics, also get
a cheap nVidia card.  I have a PhII X4 955 and a Radeon HD4200 setup that
doesn't work right in Linux.  Frequent ATI driver crashes, odd corruption on
the screen, and choppiness.  However, I have no issues with my Intel GFX and
the 2 nVidia GPUs I have.  But, fundamentally, a PhII X4/X6 or an Athlon II
X4 would make a great choice for CPUs

Kai

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:59 PM, r <technical500 at talktalk.net> wrote:

> On 01-Oct-10 16:51:06 Franz Waldmüller wrote:
> >Hi,
>
> >I am about to assemble a new PC as my really old ones are dying. I don't
> >like to buy a new machine every two years that is why I am looking for
> >some "future proof" components.
>
> I built a PC about a year ago, and one problem I found out after
>
> assembling was that the motherboard had a huge amount of USB on
>
> the motherboard, but the tower only had a few sockets.
>
> Most of the USB couldnt be utilized, these are the sockets which
>
> connect to the ones at the front of the tower.
>
> Unless someone knows how to utilize these.
>
>
> USB3 is the main reason I need to upgrade also, as it seems to need
>
> a PCIexpress card, but the current motherboard has just 1 PCI express
>
> slot used by the graphics card.
>
>
> I like the transparent tower cases, as there is more light for making
>
> changes, less need for a torch. Also they look cool with neon light
> components.
>
>
>
>
> >The PC should work with ubuntu without any additional configuration.
> >One of the components which I could not decide yet is the mainboard.
> >At the moment this mainboard is my favorite choice:
> >Asus M4A89GTD PRO/USB3
> >http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=eCWbkolMf0DOW0IV&templete=2
>
> >I am going to explain my thoughts and needs:
> >-) I want to use *ECC memory* which reduced my choice to AMD-CPUs and
> >ASUS motherboards (Intel only supports ECC in it's Xenon-CPUs)
>
> >-) I want an *IGP* as I don't have a need for a dedicated video card.
> >GIMP, Inkscape and some video-editing are the most demanding
> >applications I am currently using. The don't use GPU-acceleration, yet.
> >The IGP of this motherboard is an Radeaon HD 4290 GPU. This should be
> >fine for using Compiz and watching movies. At them moment I have the
> >impression that AMD/ATI is contributing more to the development of open
> >source drivers, which I intend to use. And that the Radeon HD 4290 is
> >the best IGP available. I don't use the PC to play games.
>
> >-) USB3.0 and SataIII are nice features of this motherboard, too.
>
> >Of special interest would be any feedback related to ACPI. I intend to
> >use ubuntu 10.04LTS as I need a stable system. If some components need
> >ubuntu 10.10 I could use this version as well.
>
> >Thanks for your help!
> >Franz
>
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