[Wlug] Motherboard search tool?

Robert Krawitz rlk at alum.mit.edu
Thu Nov 15 14:31:42 EST 2007


   Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:21:05 -0500
   From: "John Stoffel" <john at stoffel.org>

   Chuck> On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 11:39:07AM -0500, John Stoffel wrote:
   >> 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.  

   Chuck> Most new Intel chips support x86_64 and hence don't have a
   Chuck> hassle going over 4GB RAM.

   Yup, I realize that.  And it is a factor, since I could even decide to
   go with a board with builtin Intel graphics and be able to go
   completely open source with decent performance.

Any recommendation for an Intel board with builtin graphics that
supports at least 8 GB of RAM?


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