Motherboard recommendations for running Ubuntu?

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I just installed an ASUS Z97 Deluxe.  It has everything you mentioned.

There were some oddities:
1. The existing 14.04.2 installation could not see all three monitors, but
could use any two of the three.  They had been on an nVidia add-in card,
and are now on the Intel GPU in my i7 CPU.  Oddly, a fresh install works
normally.
2. Sound is not working at all.  It works fine on the live disk, and
presumably I can track down where the problem is introduced, but I haven't
gotten that far yet.
3. There is an extra set of SATA express connectors that are non-functional
by design.  Don't make the mistake of trying to use them.  I spent hours
trying to figure out what was wrong with my DVD drive, when it was
connected to a useless socket.
4. It's quite picky about the DDR3 sticks it will support.  The Crucial
Ballistix ones from my old motherboard did not work and I had to get ones
with different specs.  The supported ones in the manual may no longer be
available, so it's tricky finding the right ones.  I'm using some Corsair
Vengeance Pro sticks now.

There are 6 regular SATA III sockets.  8 if you use the ones that could
otherwise be SATA express.  There's plenty of USB support, up to 3.1.  I
have 32 GB of ram in it now.

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Petter Adsen <petter at synth.no> wrote:

> I'm in the process of buying a new machine, and I'm a little worried
> about choosing the motherboard. After a lot of weighing pros and cons,
> I'll probably go with an Intel CPU after many years of buying AMD.
>
> Several of the motherboards I've been looking at seems to be UEFI only,
> with no Legacy mode. Does this generally pose problems, as long as
> Secure Boot can be disabled?
>
> Has anyone got a motherboard that they feel they can recommend? It must
> be possible to install at least 32GB RAM, even though I probably won't
> need more than 16GB for now. I'd also _really_ like a decent Ethernet
> controller, preferably Intel - I'll avoid Realtek or Marvell if at all
> possible. While I could buy a separate card I'd prefer to save the PCIe
> slot for something else.
>
> M.2 and/or SATA Express would also be a big plus, and a couple of USB
> 3.1 ports for future use would be nice, although not required. There
> will probably be add-on cards with those at some point if I need them.
>
> In general, I've always quite liked ASUS. I see that MSI has a few
> interesting boards, but I have no experience with them personally.
>
> In addition to this, I use two screens today, but I might upgrade to
> three in the near future, the new screen being 4K-capable. If anyone
> knows of a suitable graphics card for this that is well supported under
> Linux, I'd also be very happy. So much the better if proprietary
> drivers are not necessary.
>
> All recommendations and hints on what to buy and what to avoid would be
> warmly welcome, as my hardware knowledge is hopelessly out of date.
>
> Petter
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