> > > > > >>________________________________ >> From: Weaver <wea...@riseup.net> >>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >>Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 4:56 AM >>Subject: New Mainboard. >> >> >>Greetings all. >> >>I have decided on buying one of these: >> >>http://shop.amd.com/us/All/Detail/Processor/HDZ555WFGMBOX?SearchFacets=category%3AProcessor >> >>and, as I am going to put it into one of these: >> >>http://www.mittoni.com.au/lian-li-black-pca04-mini-tower-htpc-chassis-usb3-p-3948.html >> >>I need recommendations on Micro-ATX boards that will work in with that >>context. > > Go here: http://www.motherboards.org/mobot/ Select your requirements > and see what comes up. The database isn't complete, really, and requires > multiple trials to get useful (or any) output, but it does get you "in the > ballpark." > >>It's a set-up that is going to last me a substantial number of years and >> I >>really don't need half a dozen sata or PCI sockets. >> >>One Primary IDE or Sata channel would be all I need. >>I've got server space on the network. > > Whether IDE or SATA, you'll get at least two. I myself prefer, for future > expansion purposes, to have a 4 internal physical device option minimum.
I'm finding quite a number of M-ATX boards with just the one primary IDE channel. If I don't have an in-box ROM drive - I find an external one more useful that I can move from box to box - That gives me two hard drives in-box. As I said, I have plenty of server space. Moving files to the server when I get short of drive space is no problem. > >>I do deal with large graphics files and have as many as 11 virtual >> windows >>open with as many as half a dozen apps open in each, when I'm working, so >>I'm looking at least 8 GB of RAM, but that's about it. > > It is rare that you'll find a micro-ATX board with more than 2 RAM slots > due limited physical space. If possible, for future expansion, since you > plan to use this box a long time, I would try to find a MB that accepts up > to 16GB RAM. 32 would be better. Every new release or OS upgrade requires > more and more RAM as do the apps. On this box which is 6 years old, I've > gone from 2GB to 4 to 8 in that time. From your use requirements, I > consider 8GB a useful minimum. I'm a commercial photographer (mostly), > shoot mostly RAW images, which can be upwards of 20 to 30MB each and batch > process hundreds of images at a time and only hit the swap very lightly. > I plan, in the near future, to increase to 16, the max the board will > take. Again, many of the M-ATX boards I'm looking at provide four slots and a potential for 16 GB, with the ability to use 1800 Mh modules, so the upgrade is no problem there. I do more design and graphic work than photography, so that gives me some leeway. > >>What recommendations and what's the latest on this UEFI rubbish? > > > Read this (and other articles about it), particular the Criticism at the > bottom, and make your own decision: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Firmware_Interface > > I currently avoid it, if I can. I'd prefer to just on principle. Any Microsoft innovation I want as far from my machines as possible. Part of my 'Untrusted Computing Programme'. Thanks, Weaver. > > B > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/1345570146.56420.yahoomail...@web160306.mail.bf1.yahoo.com > > -- "I invite you to name a society that created a secret prison system, outside the rule of law, where torture takes place, that sooner or later didn't turn the abuse against it's own citizens. -- Naomi Wolf - October 11, 2007 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/99d5371740b5d394843d5a0df4082c50.squir...@fulvetta.riseup.net
