[OpenIndiana-discuss] fishing for suggestions for new motherboard

[Jerry Kemp]

Hello Tim,

Thanks for the comments.

Specifically the USB ones, I really wasn't aware.  My personal opinion and 
experience with USB (and we all know what opinions are worth) is that it does 
fine for use as a keyboard and mouse interface.  And that is all I would ever 
use it for.  I would never use it for storage, with the exception of maybe one 
of those 8 or 16 Gb USB sticks for sneakernet.

I currently have an external drive enclosure attached via e-sata, and I have 
done well with that.

As far as audio and video go, its not something I really push.  YouTube video 
here and there.  Downloaded video's via mplayer, or VLC if that is working 
again.  I really don't push the audio thing hard and so far, I have always been 
happy with what ever audio is on the system board.

I currently have a Gigabyte LGA1366 GA-X58A-UD5 with a Intel Core i7 950 3.06GHz 
that I built out in early 2011.  Its done well for me, but is getting pretty 
long in the tooth.

Jerry



On 05/13/15 02:59 PM, Tim Mooney wrote:
> In regard to: [OpenIndiana-discuss] fishing for suggestions for new...:
>
>> 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 can't really help you for hardware suggestions, since what I'm using
> as my OI workstation is now a couple years old and was a complete Dell
> system, rather than just a motherboard like you're looking for.
>
> You've probably already thought of both of these things, but I'll
> mention them anyway:
>
> - watch out for motherboards that only have USB3.  That currently won't
>    work on OI, so be sure you find one that has some USB2 with a chip
>    that's supported.
>
> - you mentioned graphics and I think you're on the right track, but do
>    you care about audio?  That can be as hard to get working as video,
>    though non-functioning audio isn't always the show-stopper that
>    non-functioning video would be.
>
> Good luck, and be sure you report back on what works (and anything that
> doesn't) once you find a system.
>
> Tim