On 10 June 2016 at 01:02, Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:
I bought an Asrock once. It won't happen again. It lasted about two weeks past its warranty expiration. AFAICT, Asrock is a lower tier brand, like eCS, and a bunch of brands that no longer exist.
My last mobo purchase, 9 months ago, is what I'm typing from: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130699
Well I do use an ASRock motherboard but YMMV - and I was not using it long enough to comment, really. MSI might be a good idea.
with this CPU from eBay for $46: http://ark.intel.com/products/77773/Intel-Pentium-Processor-G3220-3M-Cache-3...
There seem to be different schools of thought on whether one needs power in the CPU or not. I do use a G2120 (this same kind but from 2013), and I would honestly pick one of those and spend more on PSU and CPU fan to keep the thing silent. But if Greg wants an i5 he wants an i5.
Are you sure you're up for a piece of the Skylake on Linux grief some of us have been reading about?
Did a quick google. There seem to be graphics issues that cause hangs unless you disable hardware acceleration. And they seem to be fixed in kernel 4.6. And kernel 4.6 was released less than a month ago. There also seem to be power management issues but these don't apply to desktop. According to this link https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/517282-How-i-can-install-kernel-4... one can already get a "vanilla" 4.6 kernel on Leap. And Skylake is his only option if he wants DDR4. Amd he wants DDR4 so that he can use the same memory as his higher end stations. I honestly think this is worth the risk, because Intel is known to work on its Linux drivers, so even if one has to disable acceleration temporarily it should not be too long.
Doesn't look like it's an 80Plus.
I set a price floor of about $30-35 on power supplies I buy. Even with the CoolMax name I'm skeptical of a price that low for 300W.
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