On Sun, 9 Sep 2018 10:39:58 -0700 (PDT) Rich Shepard <[email protected]> dijo:
> The Asus motherboard that has sat here for a few years seems to be >defective. I recently put together a new desktop with an AsRock Z270 Taichi. One of the things that I was looking for was USB 3.1 Gen 2 connectors, and this was one of the few boards that offered that at the time. Note that at this time I have no devices that can take advantage of the double speed of Gen 2 over Gen 1, but I wanted it for future devices that I will probably buy someday. It's an Intel board, so you probably don't want to consider it, but I thought I'd mention it anyway. At the time I researched on the net whether AMD or Intel CPUs had the best deal for the money, and I settled on Intel. My high-end computing involves encoding movies, which takes a significant amount of CPU power. We assembled it at the Clinic, which was kind of fun. I might have been able to do it myself, but I would have had a lot of questions and it was great having smart people around. We discovered a problem - the video output from the board is HDMI and there were no such monitors at Free Geek, except for the big screen mounted on the wall in the room we use. Using that screen we got it sort of booting, but when I got it home I discovered that my old 1920x1080 Asus monitor needed input from a computer before it could be switched to HDMI, and at the Clinic we had gutted my old computer, so I had nothing that would work. It took me hours of poking before I finally got it working. I thought I'd mention these things so you will have a couple more things to consider while shopping. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
