[OpenIndiana-discuss] fishing for suggestions for new motherboard

Jerry Kemp sun.mail.list47 at oryx.us
Wed May 13 19:12:43 UTC 2015


I'm long overdue to build out a new x86/x64 system to run (primarily) 
OpenIndiana on, and I looking for comments and suggestions from others who have 
recently done the same.

I have already reviewed our HCL here:

http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Motherboards

But I fear it is dated, as the last update was almost a year ago.

I'm planning to run an Intel CPU due to some issues with another OS, and I need 
it to handle at least 32 Gb of ram.  This is for me at $HOME, but I run a lot of 
zones + virtualization via VirtualBox.

Size - I own a small collection of old Sun Ultra 20 cases that I like to use, so 
I am looking for an ATX sized board.

If it matters, I typically always run an NVIDIA frame buffer as they seem to be 
the path of least resistance and always have nice *Solaris drivers.

Thanks for any comments,

Jerry



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