Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Alex Smith (K4RNT) shadowhun...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 19:58, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: [...] Thanks for the input. The spec says its `form factor' is micro ATX Does that mean the screw holes won't fit an ATX MidTower (antec sonata) Alex S responded: Any

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-23 Thread Harry Putnam
Gary Mills mi...@cc.umanitoba.ca writes: The spec says its `form factor' is micro ATX That was because I had a micro ATX case. I believe ASUS also makes a similar board in the ATX form factor. So the micro ATX will NOT work on an ATX format box then? And do you have an idea what might be

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-23 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
ATX cases will come with standoffs that you will screw into the chassis' motherboard tray to match holes in the motherboard. ATX cases will take up the entire motherboard tray, MicroATX boards will take up a smaller footprint in these cases. There are sub-ATX cases available that will only handle

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-21 Thread Kevin J. Woolley
On Tuesday, 21 December, 2010 10:00, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com said: A few words from experienced people would be helpful on motherboard choice. I've been running osol on this hardware: cpu: AMD Athlon 64, 2200 MHz (11 x 200) 3400+ motherboard: AOpen AK86-L (5 PCI, 1 AGP,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-21 Thread Edward Martinez
On 12/21/10 10:14, Kevin J. Woolley wrote: On Tuesday, 21 December, 2010 10:00, Harry Putnamrea...@newsguy.com said: A few words from experienced people would be helpful on motherboard choice. I've been running osol on this hardware: cpu: AMD Athlon 64, 2200 MHz (11 x 200) 3400+

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-21 Thread Edward Martinez
On 12/21/10 10:42, Kevin J. Woolley wrote: On Tuesday, 21 December, 2010 02:34, Edward Martinezmindbende...@live.com said: Hi, I suggest staying away from AMD Athlon 2 x2 series, because I have a system using the 240 series, Openindiana, solaris 10,11 ex, opensolaris,etc do

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-21 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:42:44AM -0800, Kevin J. Woolley wrote: Do you have a recommendation for a socket AM3 CPU that will run Solaris well? This is what I bought in March to run Opensolaris. It runs Openindiana flawlessly. All the devices are supported. o Motherboard: ASUS

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-21 Thread Lou Picciano
Harry, As the discussion has apparently opened up to Intel chips, let me weigh in. I claim no comprehensive knowledge of the state of the art, but did quite a bit of research at the point of making some purchase decisions, now 2+ yrs ago. I've been running - with great success, Oi on a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Gary Mills mi...@cc.umanitoba.ca writes: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:42:44AM -0800, Kevin J. Woolley wrote: Do you have a recommendation for a socket AM3 CPU that will run Solaris well? This is what I bought in March to run Opensolaris. It runs Openindiana flawlessly. All the devices are

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-21 Thread Harry Putnam
Kevin J. Woolley k...@javabunny.net writes: On Tuesday, 21 December, 2010 10:00, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com said: A few words from experienced people would be helpful on motherboard choice. I've been running osol on this hardware: cpu: AMD Athlon 64, 2200 MHz (11 x 200)

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-21 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
Any ATX type motherboard will fit in an ATX case - you'll just not use the entire motherboard tray and all standoffs. On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 19:58, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Gary Mills mi...@cc.umanitoba.ca writes: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:42:44AM -0800, Kevin J. Woolley wrote:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] General question about motherboards

2010-12-21 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 07:58:32PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: Gary Mills mi...@cc.umanitoba.ca writes: On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:42:44AM -0800, Kevin J. Woolley wrote: Do you have a recommendation for a socket AM3 CPU that will run Solaris well? This is what I bought in March to