motherboards that work well with gentoo ?

cwc

My last post was in reference to my ASUS A8V-VM Motherboard and it only seeing 3 gigs of RAM.
Some said I should drive over it. Well, I'd like to keep it and get a new Motherboard preferably AMD because of cost.
I'd also like to stick with Nvidia unless I could be convinced ATI would be an advantage.
I'm a Java, PHP, and Arduino programmer.
I also want to run Blender.

The ASUS A8V-VM worked well with Gentoo.

What Motherboards are ya all using and what could you recommend. <$200
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Clad in Sky · l33t Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 887 Location: Germany

Should probably moved to kernel and hardware for better results.

5 years ago I built my computer with a Gigabyte board and haven't had any problems so far. I'm too lazy to search for the specifications since the board is so old. At the same time I also built one computer with an Asrock board, and a friend has one box with the same board and both worked and still do without problems.

I'd stick to NVidia for the time being because Nvidia works well here.
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energyman76b · Advocate Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 2048 Location: Germany

Gigabyte
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

I bought a pair of MSI boards and was disappointed. One had a faulty memory channel, but it was a long time before I got around to troubleshooting the problem.

I replaced it and another older system with identical Gigabyte boards (AMD). I've been happy.

Unless I had a reason to do otherwise, I'd probably go with Gigabyte again.
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John R. Graham · Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 6:25 pm Post subject:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 7:39 pm Post subject:

cwc,

That sounds very 32 bitish. Is it a BIOS problem?

Regardless of what the BIOS might report, what does a 64 bit liveCD have to say about RAM ?
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John R. Graham · Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 8:20 pm Post subject:

I have had really good luck with Supermicro, but they're pricey. I love their dual Xeon server boards, from which I build workstation-class machines.

However, I'm not sure the premise is especially valid these days. Which one of you have had bad luck getting Gentoo running on any mainstream motherboard? Even pjp's issues are ones of quality, not of compatibility.

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cwc · Posted: Sat Apr 06, 2013 2:47 am Post subject:

AaronPPC · Guru Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 522 Location: Tucson, AZ

I just built a new rig on an Asus M5A99X Evo R2.0 motherboard. I believe it will meet all of your criteria. It is an AMD AM3+ board with an nVidia 990 chipset and is $140 at Newegg. It works perfectly under Linux. Suspend and hibernate even works!
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Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

My 2¢, hardware I can recall using recently:

Gigabyte (AM2/3) - works well enough, got a free CPU core from a BIOS update, can't complain
Asus (various ICH-based) - works OK now, had various graphics/wifi problems when I first bought them.
Jetway (ICH) - avoid like plague. Buggy BIOS, no manufacturer-provided updates for it either. Hardware sensors were useless because of broken ACPI.

cwc · Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 12:47 pm Post subject: What about MSI?

I found this expensive MSI board at New Egg.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130677

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Anon-E-moose · Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 1:18 pm Post subject:

Most boards will run linux (some with various degrees of success).

But to be sure, read the specs on the board and check gentoo search for problems with onboard stuff
especially the video (if onboard), usb controllers, full iommu support (if doing virtualization) and ethernet.

I own an older MSI board that still runs fine except it doesn't support iommu completely,
so I've upgraded to an Asus m5a99fx. I initially upgraded to an asrock but it shorted out
for some strange reason and they had no more to swap out, so I went with the Asus.

Gigabyte is swapout compatible with many MSI and Asus boards as they seem to use the same reference designs, IMO.

Good luck
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tomtom69 · Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 6:49 pm Post subject:

I can also recommend asrock.
Old board was a K7S41GX (~9 years old, 2 systems still running), and currently I am running a N68C-S-UCC (~3 years old) on 3 systems without any problems. Both with AMD.

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Also most VM boards include onchip video, and because of that, an amount of system memory is reserved (read eaten) for the video. So there's no way to have 100% memory for your own usage.

cwc

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