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>> I'm reading that ASUS and Gigabyte are the way to go for reliability. |
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> For consumer oriented motherboards, I feel the same. |
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>> Yeah I'm a little worried about that with the motherboard. If |
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>> necessary I can keep limping along with my current motherboard while I |
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>> wait for drivers for the new one. |
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> Have you decided on a AM3+ socket motherboard or would you consider |
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> alternatives? If AMD "floats your boat", wait a while until the Llanos |
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> comes out[1]; an 4 core APU with integrated graphics core at 65W... Of |
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> course you need to get a motherboard that support HDMI out... but for a |
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> Gentoo htpc that would be a "perfect" balance between compiling power |
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> and low power utilisation, no? |
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> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Fusion_microprocessors#Llano |
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> Best regards |
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> Peter K |
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That's the FM1 socket, right? I only see two FM1 CPUs on newegg.com |
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right now. They're quad-core and 100W. I guess the advantage there |
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is they have graphics on the CPU. A 65W CPU would be better but when |
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it comes out I suppose. |
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- Grant |
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