Best supported motherboard

[Franz Waldmüller]

Hi Basil,

Am 2010-11-26 22:48, schrieb Basil Kurian:
> Hi Franz
>
> Please see below comment in this page http://www.anandtech.com/show/2959
>
> /*The board does do this weird thing where if you power it off before
> the OS has shut it down completely, when you power it back on it thinks
> that you have an overclocking problem (probably detects an incomplete
> shutdown and assumes bad overclocking) and requires going into the BIOS
> and back out to continue the boot. And I don't have any overclocking
> enabled at all, I just manually set the timings for my memory because
> the defaults were not right.*/
>
>
> Does that occurs in your case ?
No I don't know this problem. It never occurred with my machine. I 
didn't set any over clocking or frequencies in the bios. Just enabled 
AHCI and the ECC RAM.
>
>
> Also  a sleep issue is mentioned . what about it ?
I just did some testing for you:
(I never used the sleep modes)

Suspend to RAM and Suspend to Disk don't work with ubuntu 10.04 when usb 
3.0 is enabled in the Bios (I am using the 64bit version of ubuntu-10.04.1)
I had to disable the usb 3.0 controller then suspend to disk worked 
(with the open source radeon driver)
check out this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10092819

installed the proprietary flgrx-driver (from the ubuntu repositories).
suspend to RAM does *not work*
suspend to DISK *does work*

according to this german hardware compatibility list this asus board is 
supported out of the box in ubuntu 10.10.
http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Hardwaredatenbank/Mainboards#Asus

This board might be a little bit to new for my 10.04 installation - but 
I don't mind.

Actually I didn't have that many motherboard to choose from:
I wanted to use ECC-RAM: unless I wanted to by an expensive high end 
Intel-CPU I had to choose from AMD.

And ASUS is the only manufacuter who offers consumer mainboard 
supporting ECC-memory. I chose the M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 because of the 
integrated graphics and the SATA II and USB 3.0 support.

If you want to know which memory modules I used I can check it for you 
(I found some modules from Kingston which were just a little bit more 
expensive than non-ECC modules).

My suspend issues could be related to my software-RAID as well. I don't 
know if mdadm can handle suspend to RAM.

Franz

>
>
> 2010/11/26 Franz Waldmüller <waldbauernbub at gmx.at
> <mailto:waldbauernbub at gmx.at>>
>
>     Hi Basil,
>
>     Am 2010-11-26 14:47, schrieb Basil Kurian:
>      > Hi
>      >
>      > Which will be a good motherboard for AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black
>      > Edition ? I mean a board which got a lot of performance and
>     features (
>      > with integrated graphics card , SATA 3 and usb 3.0) and best
>     supported
>      > in Linux. Which one will be better Gigabyte or Asus ? It will be nice
>      > if someone having similar experience specify an exact model number :)
>      >
>      > --
>     I am using an ASUS M4A89GTD/USB3 which works well with my AMD Phenom II
>     X4 955.
>     http://ixbtlabs.com/articles3/mainboard/asus-m4a890gtd-pro-usb3-890gx-p1.html
>
>     As far as I know the integrated graphics is the best which is available
>     from AMD right now.
>     I only considered ASUS boards because of their support of ECC-RAM.
>
>     SATA3.0 & USB3.0 are available but I haven't tested them.
>
>     Suspend and hibernate do not work proberly but I think this is because I
>     am using the open-source radeon-drivers.
>     If you need any benchmarks let me know.
>     Franz
>
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>
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