[NBLUG/talk] Considerations for a new motherboard?

droman at romansys.com droman at romansys.com
Sat Jan 27 22:05:30 PST 2007


There is a good slot diagram/description and some information about PCI-X
vs. PCI-Express...

http://www.webconnexxion.com/raid/info_pages.php?pages_id=35


Thanks,
    ---Dean.






> Really long slot, usually orange or purple or something? Prolly PCI-E.
> My EGS board supports PCI-E, and I use it cheerfully.
> Also, many mobos can support single or multi-core chips. Do your
> reading before you buy. You might have more options then you expect.
>
> On 1/27/07, Lincoln Peters <sampln at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> On Friday 26 January 2007 16:21, Jippen wrote:
>> > 64-bit is nice, because you can just install a 32bit os on it, and
>> > upgrade when it is better supported. Only real hitch with a 64 bit
>> > system so far is that heartbeat doesn't run unless its in a 32bit
>> > chroot
>>
>> I don't use heartbeat, so that's not an issue.
>>
>> >
>> > If you don't care about over/under clocking, try an EGS motherboard.
>> > My current one supports 4 IDE drives and 4 sata, with RAID 0/1/0+1/5
>> > onboard. The onboard sound on them is pretty nice as well. And it has
>> > onboard gigabit.
>>
>> Sounds good; I don't really care about overclocking.
>>
>> >
>> > PCI-Express and PCI-X are the same thing.
>>
>> OK.  So what's that really long variation on the PCI slot I occasionally
>> see
>> on high-end motherboards at LinuxWorld?  Is that some kind of a 64-bit
>> PCI
>> slot?
>>
>> > Your main concern will be
>> > loosing the AGP card if you go that way. If you don't need the
>> > graphics power, it may not be a big deal, but if you do, PCI-E is MUCH
>> > faster.
>>
>> It sounds like if I could get a motherboard that's equipped like the EGS
>> board
>> you described earlier, *and* supported PCI-E, I would need to get a new
>> video
>> card, but all my other expansion cards would become unnecessary.
>>
>> (I'm not going to assume that I can keep my current CPU and RAM,
>> although I
>> wouldn't mind being able to do so.)
>>
>> >
>> > Performance Per Watt: Dual-cores are better then single-cores. AMD is
>> > better then Intel. Other then that, google is your friend.
>>
>> I'll keep that in mind.  Thanks.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Lincoln Peters          <sampln at sbcglobal.net>
>>
>> Logic is a pretty flower that smells bad.
>>
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