[Wlug] Motherboard search tool?

[Gary Hanley]

I built a PC for myself last May based on the AMD 64 X2 5600 and this 
motherboard:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131095

It works like a champ with no issues or problems.

I'm somewhat of an AMD fanboy but I'd admit Intel has the better 
processors these days, but if you are looking for an attractive
price/performance ratio I think the AMD chips still have that edge.

-- Gary

On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, 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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