[OpenIndiana-discuss] fishing for suggestions for new motherboard

[bentahyr at chez.com]

Hi Jerry,

For me the most important is network support because I would be really annoyed with an unsupported NIC. It already happened and hopefully I could use Wifi as it was on a laptop... so the 3 criteria are :
- NIC support
- SATA controller support
- USB2/PS2 support

I'm in process of refurbishing an old Ultra 20 as well and I'm collecting hardware as I see some good oportunities on second hand stuff, the motherboard I found is an ASRock Z97 Extreme4 which seems to fit my bill, I don't really know about the support for Realtek ALC1150 sound chipset tho.

Ben.

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De: "Jerry Kemp" <sun.mail.list47 at oryx.us>
À: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
Envoyé: Jeudi 14 Mai 2015 07:12:43
Objet: [OpenIndiana-discuss] fishing for suggestions for new motherboard

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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