Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2023 13:49:49 +0100 From: Paul Floyd <paulf2718@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trying initial boot of FreeBSD (main so: 15) of Ryzen 9 7950X3D on an ASUS Prime X670-P WIFI: various dmesg -a lines; more Message-ID: <cb1d943d-934e-4dff-8ece-9e5fce98c596@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <d97c90770cc16f3a1fc9dff6062b1386@mail.infomaniak.com> References: <A7AB0048-40EA-49FE-B204-CD32C79AD8D8.ref@yahoo.com> <A7AB0048-40EA-49FE-B204-CD32C79AD8D8@yahoo.com> <bc324f3f-0e60-42ce-8fd1-7ec5a2bd2f17@gmail.com> <4165447c9324f1ab40f9b25121acc912@mail.infomaniak.com> <89e0bc79-8d79-448f-b391-19f2f91ca1b2@gmail.com> <d97c90770cc16f3a1fc9dff6062b1386@mail.infomaniak.com>
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On 12-11-23 11:35, Daniel Engberg wrote: > > The MSI board looks decent I guess, the x16/x4/x2 layout isn't great but > it's not horrible either depending on your use case. Never looked into > their lineup due to lack of a decent builtin NIC. You can get a separate > one but it's still an additional cost and takes of at least one PCIe slot. > > ASRock boards in general appears to be a bit rough around the edges > (both hardware design and BIOS) especially low-mid range models, their > premium tiers gets great reviews though. I would really think twice > about getting a board with only one slot that has more lanes than 1x in > terms of "full size" PCIe slots and you're again stuck with the Realtek NIC. > > As you said, the Asus board is pretty much like the MSI one however I > don't see why you'd go for that over the TUF Gaming X670E-Plus which is > pretty much the same board with some very minor changes such as no > optical output (quite a bit cheaper though). > > The ProArt board also has a HDMI output? :-) > https://www.asus.com/motherboards-components/motherboards/proart/proart-x670e-creator-wifi/ <https://www.asus.com/motherboards-components/motherboards/proart/proart-x670e-creator-wifi My desk has a shelf with a scanner on it, so not much space for the monitor (I have thought about sawing off 10cm from the shelf so that there would be space for a 27" monitor). When I work from home with a Dell Windows laptop I usually use the hdmi socket. I suppose I could get a miniDP-DP cable instead. I don't tend to have big RAM or networking requirements. The main things are decent speed, recent ISA (esp things like avx512 and preferably on the metal) and probably a fair number of disks. In the past I've partitioned disks for OSes but these days I usually have one boot disk per OS and then a few data disks. Right now I have about 400G of data on my zfs disks, mostly VBox VM images. I'll have another think about the ProArt and peruse the TUF Gaming X670E-Plus. A+ Paul
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