You could look for something like a Core2Quad 6600 plus a socket 775 motherboard. I would think that generation of architecture would suit you pretty well and be reasonably cost effective. Try for something with an Intel chipset to maintain the best compatibility with OI. Going outside the Intel line may work, but it also could cause you grief.
-----Original Message----- From: Harry Putnam [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 12:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Need coaching about used equipment I've been running oi on what is now an older AMD Athlon64 +3400 with three GB ram which is the max on that Abit board. My setup is only a small scale home server intended to supply my need of lots of room for video editing files and other hefty graphic projects. Something has happened to render the hardware unusable and rather than spend time investigating, I think I'd as soon upgrade. Even if the fix were simple. I'm not looking for bleeding edge but something a few yrs old (2-3). I'd like to have the option of at least 8GB ram so it would need a mobo that supports that much. Also the board should have a nice lot of sata controllers and ports. 64 bit architecture also a requirement. Don't care about sound or video being more than adequate. It could be a mobo cpu bundle or a full computer. Cutting to the chase then... I hoped some of you may know what is something midway or so from my old Athlon and up to date hardware. I'd like to have some names and specs to search for an ebay or whereever since there is such a plethora of stuff available a person could flounder around in it endlessly without some specific targets. I'm afraid it would take a lot of research on my part to come up with the names as I have not kept up with trends for some years. I'm thinking some of the folks here will know off the top of there heads, hardware that would match the spec laid out above, so I'm hoping to tap into that knowledge rather than immerse myself in research.... lazy I guess, but if it does not require much on the part of any responders I'd like to hear from you. _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
