I'm looking for a new AMD-based motherboard that can take an AM3 CPU (so an AM3 or AM2+ motherboard is in scope). Obviously I'm checking the HCL, but the HCL does not necessarily answer the following questions:
- What's are the current recommendations if I want to make sure power management will be well supported, including S3 suspend? Do some chipsets but not others work for this (or work better)? Are some chipsets expected to be better/worse when suspend-resume to disk is done?
- What about true SATA support rather than "disks in IDE mode"? Saying something works on the HCL does not necessarily clarify this, and obviously I'd prefer SATA support if possible.
- Any other comments on chipsets (or motherboards) that are recommended or ones to avoid?
- Base assumptions are 4 memory slots, >=4 SATA ports, Gig Ethernet with Jumbo frames if possible, and relatively low power consumption if possible. But most of the motherboards support these.
- DDR3 is maybe preferred but not required, although it looks like all of the Gigabyte systems on the HCL as of today are DDR2 instead of DDR3.
I'm tempted in general to go with somewthing from Gigabyte, because the ASUS website is too much of an inpenetrable bunch of Flash and also starts from the premise that you know what chipset you want, rather than "show me all of the AM3 motherboards". But ASUS and others are also options.
Thanks for any help, Hugh. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
