>> I'm reading that ASUS and Gigabyte are the way to go for reliability. > > For consumer oriented motherboards, I feel the same. > >> Yeah I'm a little worried about that with the motherboard. If >> necessary I can keep limping along with my current motherboard while I >> wait for drivers for the new one. > > Have you decided on a AM3+ socket motherboard or would you consider > alternatives? If AMD "floats your boat", wait a while until the Llanos > comes out[1]; an 4 core APU with integrated graphics core at 65W... Of > course you need to get a motherboard that support HDMI out... but for a > Gentoo htpc that would be a "perfect" balance between compiling power > and low power utilisation, no? > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Fusion_microprocessors#Llano > > Best regards > > Peter K
That's the FM1 socket, right? I only see two FM1 CPUs on newegg.com right now. They're quad-core and 100W. I guess the advantage there is they have graphics on the CPU. A 65W CPU would be better but when it comes out I suppose. - Grant
