[OpenIndiana-discuss] building a new system

[Gary Mills]

On Sat, Oct 05, 2024 at 04:23:06PM +0000, Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss wrote:

> I am thinking to "build" a new computer with a 
> 
> CPU AMD RYZEN 5 7600 5.20GHZ 6-CORE BOX
> 
> I have seen that there are motherboards like the following
> 
> GIGABYTE B650 EAGLE AX D5 RETAIL
> but I do not know if I can install OpenIndiana on such a system. On the other hand,a cheaper solution is to  use
> CPU AMD RYZEN 7 5800X 4.70GHZ 8-CORE BOX
> and one of these motherboards
> GIGABYTE B450 AORUS ELITE V2 RETAIL 
>  GIGABYTE B550M AORUS ELITE SOCKET AM4 4 X DDR4 RGB FUSION 2.0 (Dual NVMe PCIe 4.0*/3.0 M.2 Connectors)
> In this case, what worries me the most is if the system will be able to rcognize the network card. Any ideas/suggestions?

OI does support most network cards, so that should not be a problem.
However, OI does not support AMD graphics.  You will need to install a
separate graphics card, probably an Nvidia card.


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