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
