From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C70A1384B4 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 2015 09:38:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD4CC21C01A; Sat, 7 Nov 2015 09:38:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ob0-f173.google.com (mail-ob0-f173.google.com [209.85.214.173]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 723D0E07E6 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 2015 09:38:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obbza9 with SMTP id za9so110348864obb.1 for ; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 01:38:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=YEfgUZ34y9S4gVkXfa2wXyJ1VcJdVENiWnDs1CctA7I=; b=Awjb5+HXnLc1q8VCgpfHpOrPHmmqELX4VDH4biQUnVbsCcIu8QDNuTMFld27Kfk8hh tFWvxZaGYotPr164J99xFcuANj6fk0cXQ0UJytKDS2XvMOzYPHMtSukfNlOZHekmyfOI 71hxtEIMsf7PDwvBcHjoPSLhz64Raf5sXX8zo4STNtJZof2ZiOtvvl8WYRRmhCXv19U1 3Ul+cYvFCDmfJcYiNscPvWNx7WmkD5T+8048ViUbowYq0LmrPCvnIYyZEBDuvbwqH2bi 1YUBwnGi6Z2jcMDytwpakKHff5lxLG/noEgP71yGOsPIfvZ5aP8U/WONR9su06BjYH95 Lt0A== X-Received: by 10.182.214.37 with SMTP id nx5mr10861344obc.13.1446889129737; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 01:38:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-116-226.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.116.226]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id m10sm2002883oex.12.2015.11.07.01.38.48 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 07 Nov 2015 01:38:48 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo box To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <563BEA07.4070201@sys-concept.com> <20151107010109.4cab49b3@hal9000.localdomain> <563D7E9E.1060903@gmail.com> <1796688.4yqThTZe3y@thetick> From: Dale Message-ID: <563DC6A7.9070100@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 03:38:47 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0 SeaMonkey/2.38 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 In-Reply-To: <1796688.4yqThTZe3y@thetick> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ee9ff2d6-b0a7-454f-8c71-292adf5572fb X-Archives-Hash: d655cd79b247893d6bb6ca7714eec76a Marc Joliet wrote: > On Friday 06 November 2015 22:31:26 Dale wrote: >> wabenbau@gmail.com wrote: >>> thelma@sys-concept.com wrote: >>>> Regarding better motherboard my preference is one that use 100% >>>> Jpanese capacitors, if I'm not mistaken Gigabit is one of them. >>> Nearly six years ago I've bought four Gigabyte Ultra Durable mobos >>> equipped with solid state capacitors. Two of these boards are running >>> 24/7, the other two boards are running about 12h/day. >>> >>> All mobos are still working without any problems. So I think my next >>> board will also be a Gigabyte UD. >>> >>> -- >>> Regards >>> wabe >> I have a Gigabyte 970A-UD3P. My rig runs 24/7 except when I have to >> shutdown due to lengthy power fail. I have a UPS but it doesn't last >> forever. So far, no problems. I seem to recall that UD3 is the most >> stable version a mobo. I think you can find a breakdown of what all the >> numbers/letters stand for in the mobo model number somewhere. >> >> Hope that helps. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) > While on the topic of long-lasting mobos: my Asus M2N-E is about ten years old > now and was running almost 24/7 for about 9 of them (I pay my own electricity > now, so it only runs when I'm using it now). It has yet to cause me any > problems and has outlasted most of the other components in my PC. The only > equally old components are the soundcard, cooling, and DVD drive, the latter > of which needs replacing, though (or oiling? dunno if you can do that). > > The 14 year-old mobo in my mother's equally ancient PC is a Gigabyte, though, > so with my whopping *two* data points ;-) I'm going to argue that it's just a > matter of getting a decent model, irrespective of manufacturer. > I have a old Abit NF7 that last I turned on, it powers up. It doesn't have enough stuff in it to do much tho. It's like 15 years or more old. I think Abit closed many years ago tho. I've read that ASUS makes some good ones and we can still buy new ones of those. That makes them better than Abit. LOL Dale :-) :-)