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On 2011-07-04 18:30, Grant wrote: |
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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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