On 12/21/10 10:14, Kevin J. Woolley wrote:
On Tuesday, 21 December, 2010 10:00, "Harry Putnam"<rea...@newsguy.com> said:
A few words from experienced people would be helpful on motherboard
choice.
I've been running osol on this hardware:
cpu: AMD Athlon 64, 2200 MHz (11 x 200) 3400+
motherboard: AOpen AK86-L (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DDR DIMM
hard drives: 2 IDE 500GB, 2 sata 500GB, 2 sata 750GB
Hi Harry,
I'm grabbing ideas from the NCIX site. They have a US site as well, so use
these links to get the SKUs and look up the SKUs on the NCIX USA site if you're
in the US.
For the motherboard it sounds like this one will fit the bill, at CAD81 or so:
http://ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=46944&vpn=M4A77TD&manufacture=ASUS
You'll need a new CPU, but that can be had for ~CAD70:
http://ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=56116&vpn=ADX250OCGMBOX&manufacture=AMD
This RAM will give you 8GB right away at a little over CAD100 and keep two of
the motherboard's four slots open to be able to upgrade to 16GB:
http://ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=53427&vpn=CMX8GX3M2A1333C9&manufacture=Corsair
You'll likely need a new PSU, as you said. Here's one that's not too fancy but
will give you 500W for CAD46:
http://ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=45267&vpn=AL-D500EXP&manufacture=Apex%20Computer%20Technology
The motherboard also includes six SATA2 connectors, so you have room to grow
(or replace your PATA devices).
Hope that helps,
kjw
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Hi,
I suggest staying away from AMD Athlon 2 x2 series, because I have
a system using the 240 series, Openindiana, solaris 10,11 ex,
opensolaris,etc do not work due
to a bug in the CPU; the problem is the screen gets flooded with
the error: apic error interrupt on cpu 0 status 0 = 0, status 1 =4,
after grub in infinite loop. not sure if that bug may of inherited to
the *A**MD Athlon II X2 250* cpu
this is the bug report i filed back in march :
https://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=15218
Regards
Edward
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