From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QdmY1-0007hD-Ur for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 17:03:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6463021C0C2; Mon, 4 Jul 2011 17:01:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3167221C0C2 for ; Mon, 4 Jul 2011 17:01:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywm21 with SMTP id 21so2956102ywm.40 for ; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:01:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=6H4CvvFqwZ1RGlSLGUYqkRdUdrVamleETVoIjmWHIIA=; b=LzzVEu66BpIjQOqMN++ZM3WPbUdd4+0bMNbQVHetjWJgQUNW9O87yRj+mSqcfGhP6R kAPES/z5PK4GO3BnQTJ36yZfFSXwnP8VX3X7GnQi43+xVM0/Z0pJ5/pk6SQ0JyQVcvzB vqAuPr5u0LuvzhfV6rwj+97wJ2aF+S8eFvUgI= Received: by 10.236.187.65 with SMTP id x41mr7033041yhm.449.1309798893633; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:01:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-129-33.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.129.33]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id a47sm4169354yhj.80.2011.07.04.10.01.32 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:01:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E11F1EB.6060507@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2011 12:01:31 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110606 Gentoo/2.0.14-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s) References: <4E100985.5090604@coolmail.se> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d4c674f01f35571b59d7eb32c3331ef5 Grant wrote: > > I'm reading that ASUS and Gigabyte are the way to go for reliability. > > - Grant > > I can brag about my Gigabyte. When I was doing research on my newest rig, Gigabyte seemed to be the highest rated. As we know, that changes. When I built a rig several years ago, it was Abit. The only complaint I have with my Gigabyte is the RAM sockets are close to the CPU. If they were just a half inch farther over it would be awesome. My CPU cooler fan touched the top of the memory coolers and I got the shortest I could find at the time, that were worth having anyway. I think I had a ASUS before but can't recall since it was not one of my main rigs. I think it was in a rig I built for a friend of mine. His house burnt so no way to know for sure. It melted. :-( R.I.P. I wouldn't complain about it tho. It worked fine and was stable even during the Gentoo compiles. Most of this depends on what you want and what you can afford. I never get the latest greatest as it costs to much. You may want and can afford the latest greatest tho. I would just check out the reviews once you get down to a few mobos and see if any problems are reported. Making sure everything is Linux compatable is a good idea too. I got a link to a site of you don't already have one. Dale :-) :-)