[Wlug] Motherboard search tool?

[Clint Moyer]

newegg.com, of course
pricewatch.com

Both have good filtering, though it may not be as granular as you'd
like.

Clint


On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 11:39 -0500, John Stoffel wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I'm looking for a new system/motherboard for my home computer.  But
> trying to dig through the steaming piles of crap out there to find the
> right board is painful.  And I don't want to have to go and look at
> every single damn vendors site just to figure out what's available.
> 
> Sigh...
> 
> So does anyone know of a useful resource which compares motherboards
> and allows you to filter down the selection quickly and easily?  Esp
> by features?
> 
> So say I want:
> 
> 	AM2 socket
> 	FireWire onboard
> 	4gb > RAM potential
> 	Gigabit Ethernet
> 	>= 3 PCI slots
> 	1 PCIe x16
> 	>= 1 PCIe x1 or x4
> 
> How would I go about finding this easily?  You'd think it would be
> simple, but no... it's a total pain.
> 
> And of course I'm not totally sold on AMD, but I would like to support
> them since I like 64bit CPUs and the lack of hassle going over 4Gb of
> RAM, since I suspect that will be how I upgrade this system in the
> future, instead of getting more CPUs, etc.  
> 
> I've looked at ArsTechinca, Phoronix, LinuxBios (since I'd *love* to
> have a Linux BIOS for quicker boot times...), etc.  But they're not
> that easy to figure out without spending way more time than I want.
> 
> I'm starting to think I should just start coding up a Rails app to
> hold all this data and provide easy searches.  Then I'd need to *find*
> all the data as well... whee!  Yet another time sink.  :]
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
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