From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 14 02:47:51 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C7921065674 for ; Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:47:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tj@tjvarghese.com) Received: from mail-px0-f192.google.com (mail-px0-f192.google.com [209.85.216.192]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E992F8FC08 for ; Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:47:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tj@tjvarghese.com) Received: by mail-px0-f192.google.com with SMTP id 30so2235592pxi.3 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:47:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.103.11 with SMTP id a11mr2177616wfc.303.1244946049986; Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:20:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.10.2? ([60.53.93.20]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 31sm2515098wff.24.2009.06.13.19.20.48 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:20:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A345E80.90103@tjvarghese.com> Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:20:48 +0800 From: TJ Varghese User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Huff References: <18954.2252.774279.926149@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <18954.2252.774279.926149@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/x-pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1; boundary="------------ms060307050305050907010209" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CPU/motherboard recommendations X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:47:51 -0000 This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms060307050305050907010209 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Robert Huff wrote: > I am actively building the parts list for a new system, and > would welcome advice on motherboards. > Quick research has pointed me to two paths with regard to CPUs: > Intel Q9550(s)/Q9650, and AMD Phenom II 925/945. (Unfortunately, the > 925 doesn't seem to be available to the general public yet.) > The ideal motherboard would be small on bells and whistles > (onboard NIC, video, and RAID are optional (even undesirable) though > a decent sound chip would be good) and big on reliability, > expandability (this machine might end up with 8gbytes memory and > many storage devices), and good layout. > > I've had good luck with Intel Desktopboards...it's a boring choice, since everything just works. 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