Re: New Mainboard.
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>> From: Weaver <weaver@riseup.net>
>>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>>Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 4:56 AM
>>Subject: New Mainboard.
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>>Greetings all.
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>>I have decided on buying one of these:
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>>http://shop.amd.com/us/All/Detail/Processor/HDZ555WFGMBOX?SearchFacets=category%3AProcessor
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>>and, as I am going to put it into one of these:
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>>http://www.mittoni.com.au/lian-li-black-pca04-mini-tower-htpc-chassis-usb3-p-3948.html
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>>I need recommendations on Micro-ATX boards that will work in with that
>>context.
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> 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."
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>>It's a set-up that is going to last me a substantial number of years and
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>>really don't need half a dozen sata or PCI sockets.
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>>One Primary IDE or Sata channel would be all I need.
>>I've got server space on the network.
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> 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.
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>>I do deal with large graphics files and have as many as 11 virtual
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>>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.
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> 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
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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.
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>>What recommendations and what's the latest on this UEFI rubbish?
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> Read this (and other articles about it), particular the Criticism at the
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Firmware_Interface
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> 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.
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