On 2021-09-20, srfsh <sr...@sonu.ch> wrote: > Thomas Frohwein <tfrohw...@fastmail.com> wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 02:56:31PM -0400, Andre Smagin wrote: >> > Good day. >> > >> > I am looking for a hardware advice. >> > I don't upgrade my desktop very often - last one was about ten >> > years ago (AMD FX-8350 CPU), which I recently made my home server >> > running -current, no issues. Now I am looking for a new desktop that >> > will last another ten years, hence the question: if I buy the latest >> > available AMD chipset (X570 I think) and Ryzen 9 CPU - are there any >> > current issues with using it for OpenBSD desktop? I would like to >> > overkill it with the choice of hardware now, so I don't have to worry >> > about it for a while. >> >> If you need audio, that might be a barrier to recent AMD CPUs: >> >> https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=161221378203609&w=2 >> https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=160112047222899&w=2 >> >> Earlier Ryzen CPUs worked after disabling MSI for azalia(4), but it >> seems to not be a solution anymore with later models. >> >> For desktop, Ryzen 2xxx CPUs seem to be the last ones without the audio >> limitations. I ran a Ryzen 7-2700 for a while. >> > As a side note, I learned that one can also use an external USB audio > card to get audio working smoothly.
Or Creative BT-W2 / BT-W3 if you want Bluetooth audio.
