----- Original Message ----
From: John Stoffel <john@stoffel.org>
To: wlug@wlug.org
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 11:39:07 AM
Subject: [Wlug] Motherboard search tool?


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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