On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 7:21 AM, Daniel Rammelt <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 04/06/2013 12:39 am, Bevan wrote: > >> On 30 May 2013 10:52, Chris Hellyar <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Soo.. What's the pic of the all-in-one MB's these days? I don't >>> build PC's at all during the day any longer so I'm a bit out of >>> touch. >>> >>> Not looking for top performance, just a competent, current >>> motherboard that will not give me that damned annoying 'An error >>> occured in Ubuntu' message on every boot (Or whatever the wording >>> is, I've become banner blind it seems... >>> >>> Cheers, Chris H. >>> >>> > As far as all in one they don't really exist anymore, video is on the CPU. > With that in mind you have 2 options Intel or AMD. Either will do you fine, > Intel is a better performing CPU but it will cost you if you want > performance since only the i5/i7 CPUs have the higher end HD GPU. > The AMD on board graphics is faster than the Intel while the CPU itself is > slower, and the platform as a whole (MB + CPU) is cheaper. > > I would personally recommend getting an Intel setup, Intel is actively > involved in their OSS driver development (AMD are too) unlike nvidia. > > On the cheap I would say a Gigabyte H61M series motherboard with an Intel > 2020 CPU (Dual Core). > If you want something that is going to last a few years performance wise I > would go with a H75M series board and an Intel Core i5 3xxx CPU (Quad Core). You seriously want to avoid ATI graphics on Linux at present, the recent catalyst drivers are completely broken.
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