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 1Qdpq1-0007Mj-IT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 20:33:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EB90521C02A; Mon, 4 Jul 2011 20:32:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9495621C02A for ; Mon, 4 Jul 2011 20:32:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyh5 with SMTP id 5so2090007eyh.40 for ; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:32:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=8W3/5HObDy02V4qF9wzlKmzcK3/31qyLSFwm7K51ZQ4=; b=f2HZVWrBH7aeIzKnBnC7PnIpSG/i5zqqn70/Q+QbyOcx18TS6oMQQ8I2h5r2rjPQgE zo18EgQ3QNAAcKAgsXd6DkVYY6TAHRmuNNQuuVSLxjM0bq3SbocJpWVcvMmYcl+FId44 7iFd70BYwz+vKgrrqITxsow2SAa+4nsXL+0Fs= 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 Received: by 10.14.50.129 with SMTP id z1mr425041eeb.54.1309811520684; Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:32:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.97.68 with HTTP; Mon, 4 Jul 2011 13:32:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4E1212AF.9090908@coolmail.se> References: <4E100985.5090604@coolmail.se> <4E1212AF.9090908@coolmail.se> Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2011 13:32:00 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Time for hardware upgrade(s) From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 2c835baa0fd0e279adf1eb3106b229ec >> I'm reading that ASUS and Gigabyte are the way to go for reliability. > > For consumer oriented motherboards, I feel the same. > >> Yeah I'm a little worried about that with the motherboard. =A0If >> necessary I can keep limping along with my current motherboard while I >> wait for drivers for the new one. > > Have you decided on a AM3+ socket motherboard or would you consider > alternatives? If AMD "floats your boat", wait a while until the Llanos > comes out[1]; an 4 core APU with integrated graphics core at 65W... Of > course you need to get a motherboard that support HDMI out... but for a > Gentoo htpc that would be a "perfect" balance between compiling power > and low power utilisation, no? > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Fusion_microprocessors#Llano > > Best regards > > Peter K That's the FM1 socket, right? I only see two FM1 CPUs on newegg.com right now. They're quad-core and 100W. I guess the advantage there is they have graphics on the CPU. A 65W CPU would be better but when it comes out I suppose. - Grant