Hi all! I'm toying with the idea of spending some Christmas money on a new MB and CPU to upgrade my desktop. Although I've always been partial to AMD chips, I'm tempted this time to find something Intel-ish, I5, quad core, or so. In looking at mommyboards at New Egg and Amazon, I find so many I am unable to make reasonable determinations regarding suitability, so am hoping some of you who have new(ish) intel-compatible boards could offer some hints. Also, I'd like to keep the cost of MB, CPU and RAM to no more (or little more) than $300-350. (seeing as how apparently mid-range I5 chips cost over 200 each, that may be a vain hope.) I expect that the newest ones may work with something bleeding edge like Fedora (et al), but I like centos for my desktop since it doesn't have the ridiculous churn rate of the more aggressive distros. I can't bring myself to relish the thought of rebuilding my main desktop twice a year (or even once a year). So, any suggestions will be greatly appreciated! Thanks! -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- The Lord detests the way of the wicked but he loves those who pursue righteousness. ----------------------------- Proverbs 15:9 (niv) -----------------------------
2013/12/26 Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>> Hi all! > > I'm toying with the idea of spending some Christmas money on a new MB and > CPU to upgrade my desktop. > > Although I've always been partial to AMD chips, I'm tempted this time to > find something Intel-ish, I5, quad core, or so. > > In looking at mommyboards at New Egg and Amazon, I find so many I am > unable to make reasonable determinations regarding suitability, so am > hoping some of you who have new(ish) intel-compatible boards could > offer some hints. >See: https://hardware.redhat.com/RHEL6 -- Eero
On 12/25/2013 7:51 PM, Fred Smith wrote:> In looking at mommyboards at New Egg and Amazon, I find so many I am > unable to make reasonable determinations regarding suitability, so am > hoping some of you who have new(ish) intel-compatible boards could > offer some hints.my build last year was on an ASRock Z77 Extreme3 board I got deeply discounted at newegg during a black friday kinda sale. I5-3570k (which runs quite stably at 4.2GHz) 16GB ram. 250GB Samsung SSD disk0. nvidia gt640 video card (I don't game, but I do like opengl stuff to perform nicely) used the same Coolermaster CM690 case and Antec PSU I already had. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast
On 12/25/2013 09:51 PM, Fred Smith wrote:> Hi all! > > I'm toying with the idea of spending some Christmas money on a new MB > and CPU to upgrade my desktop.to answer such a question is not that easy, other than, to say that most all quality mainboards of today should work and it is really up to the buyer as to what is desired as features. requirements should be of more concern, ie; memory - no less than 2GB0, 4GB0 to 8GB0 better. hdd - 2 drives in RAID, at least 1TB0, higher is better mainboards today will have on board video, some will be dual monitor, if not, get a video card for dual setup, pref may be a dual monitor card and disable on board. hdd will be sata and some have on board raid controllers. cd/dvd burners are now single-sided single-layer disc (4GB7), single-sided double-layer disc (8GB0) and double-sided double-layer disc (17GB0). i would recommend at least 8GB0. you can use cd/dvd for backup, better yet, DAT tape in either scsi or usb2. because you are upgrading a box, do consider upping power supply to at least 650 watt for load you will be adding.> In looking at mommyboards at New Egg and Amazon,i would also check; http://www.portatech.com/ http://www.pricewatch.com/ http://magicmicro.com/ to make price comparisons for what you decide; http://sale-fire.com/ http://www.calibex.com/ hth. -- peace out. in a world with out fences, who needs gates. tc.hago. g .
On 12/25/2013 09:51 PM, Fred Smith wrote:> Hi all! > > I'm toying with the idea of spending some Christmas money on a new MB and > CPU to upgrade my desktop. > > Although I've always been partial to AMD chips, I'm tempted this time to > find something Intel-ish, I5, quad core, or so. > > In looking at mommyboards at New Egg and Amazon, I find so many I am > unable to make reasonable determinations regarding suitability, so am > hoping some of you who have new(ish) intel-compatible boards could > offer some hints. > > Also, I'd like to keep the cost of MB, CPU and RAM to no more (or little > more) than $300-350. (seeing as how apparently mid-range I5 chips cost > over 200 each, that may be a vain hope.) > > I expect that the newest ones may work with something bleeding edge > like Fedora (et al), but I like centos for my desktop since it doesn't > have the ridiculous churn rate of the more aggressive distros. I can't > bring myself to relish the thought of rebuilding my main desktop twice > a year (or even once a year). > > So, any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!I personally have recently built 2 different systems with with the Asus M5A99X Evo R2.0 motherboard. This one does not have a graphics card ... everything does work with CentOS-6.5 and RHEL7B1. It uses AMD CPUs and I have used several AM3+ CPUs, including Sempron 100, FX-6150, and FX-8150. https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A99X_EVO_R20/ One of the nicest features is it will detect and set a working BIOS memory timing with a press of a button on the board ... if you try something manually that is incompatible, a simple press of the button and reboot will get you back to a working config. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20131227/1cbb70ae/attachment-0002.sig>
On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 03:40:43AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:> On 12/25/2013 09:51 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > I'm toying with the idea of spending some Christmas money on a new MB and > > CPU to upgrade my desktop. > > > > Although I've always been partial to AMD chips, I'm tempted this time to > > find something Intel-ish, I5, quad core, or so. > > > > In looking at mommyboards at New Egg and Amazon, I find so many I am > > unable to make reasonable determinations regarding suitability, so am > > hoping some of you who have new(ish) intel-compatible boards could > > offer some hints. > > > > Also, I'd like to keep the cost of MB, CPU and RAM to no more (or little > > more) than $300-350. (seeing as how apparently mid-range I5 chips cost > > over 200 each, that may be a vain hope.) > > > > I expect that the newest ones may work with something bleeding edge > > like Fedora (et al), but I like centos for my desktop since it doesn't > > have the ridiculous churn rate of the more aggressive distros. I can't > > bring myself to relish the thought of rebuilding my main desktop twice > > a year (or even once a year). > > > > So, any suggestions will be greatly appreciated! > > I personally have recently built 2 different systems with with the Asus > M5A99X Evo R2.0 motherboard. This one does not have a graphics card ... > everything does work with CentOS-6.5 and RHEL7B1. > > It uses AMD CPUs and I have used several AM3+ CPUs, including Sempron > 100, FX-6150, and FX-8150. > > https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A99X_EVO_R20/ > > One of the nicest features is it will detect and set a working BIOS > memory timing with a press of a button on the board ... if you try > something manually that is incompatible, a simple press of the button > and reboot will get you back to a working config.Johnny: I assume it has UEFI and "secure boot"? did you disable the secure boot feature before installing? (AFAIK Centos doesn't yet support UEFI/secure boot????) I have an existing pair of drives holding Centos in a software Raid-1 configuration, and I'm assuming I can simply move them to the new board, boot and be off to the races. Can you comment on that assumption? thanks! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited e-mail message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community. --Roger Ebert, December, 1996 ----------------------------- The Boulder Pledge -----------------------------