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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