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, 3 DDR DIMM hard drives: 2 IDE 500GB, 2 sata 500GB, 2 sata 750GB The motherboard has given up the ghost. I want to replace it, but at the same time do some kind of light upgrade. I'd like to find a replacement motherboard that will take more ram. The one above is maxed at 3GB. I doubt it would work to use 2gb sticks in a new similar board but I'm not sure if that is the case. I haven't really noticed a crying need for more cpu since my usage is light compared to many here.... just a home zfs lan server. Mostly for backup of video editing projects and the C drive of several windows machines. But always a good idea to increase cpu during an upgrade. Maybe moving into multiple core territory as well Probably will necessitate a new powersupply as well. The current one is 400 watts. Probably too weak and maybe doesn't have the newer connections that might be needed. I'm not looking for the latest and greatest, but thinking there is some milder upgrade board that has plenty of sata ports and will take at least 6 GB ram I'm sorry to report being so lazy but the idea of trying to sort through the thousands of googled hits it's ... well its daunting. It would seem to require a considerably greater knowledge of specs and such than have. I hoped to hear from someone who actually has experience with something that fills the bill. I'm thinking older motherboards but newer than the one above. Can anyone here vouch for something that fits the bill? _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss