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On Wednesday 13 February 2013 01:53:18 AM IST, James Cloos wrote: |
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>>>>>> "NG" == Nilesh Govindrajan <me@××××××××.com> writes: |
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> NG> I'm searching for a mobo which is fully compatible with Linux and |
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> NG> supports AMD FX 8350. Preferably, I'm looking for one with onboard |
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> NG> GFX, since I don't have any need for a big GFX for now. |
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> The only boards I've seen which have an AM3 socket and onboard video |
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> have the older chipsets which lack support for 1600 MHz and 8Gig dimms |
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> or the boards intended for the opteron 3000 series. |
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> I do not know whether the latter will work with an FX. |
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> Supermicro's line of opteron 3000 boards is at: |
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> http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron3000/ |
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> They seem to cost on the order of $300 w/o SAS o $400 with. |
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> Otherwise onboard graphics means gx790 boards. |
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> OTOH, it looks like a opteron 4300 chip or two with one of these boards: |
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> http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron4000/ |
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> makes for a great atx or micro-atx compute box for only a bit more than |
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> one would pay for a piledriver FX chip and fx990 board. |
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> -JimC |
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I discussed this with a hardware expert friend of mine, and he said on |
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board GPU could interfere with certain features of the FX8350. |
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Additionally, no support for 1600 Mhz DDR3 could slow down the system. |
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Going by his suggestion, I'll get a HD Radeon 7750 and a 970 series |
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motherboard. |
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Thanks :-) |
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Nilesh Govindarajan |
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http://nileshgr.com |