Motherboard recommendations for running Ubuntu?

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 4:24 AM, Petter Adsen <petter at synth.no> wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 07:09:19 -0700
> "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I just installed an ASUS Z97 Deluxe.  It has everything you mentioned.
>
> Thank you for your reply, it was very informative. Unfortunately, the
> place I buy from haven't got the Z97 Deluxe, but they do have the Z97
> Pro which seems quite similar, so I'm currently looking at that.
>
> However, I am considering maybe going for a socket 2011-3 based system
> instead, but I am a little worried since I've heard reports of stability
> and firmware problems. Has anyone got any experience with these?
>
> > There were some oddities:
> > 1. The existing 14.04.2 installation could not see all three monitors,
> but
> > could use any two of the three.  They had been on an nVidia add-in card,
> > and are now on the Intel GPU in my i7 CPU.  Oddly, a fresh install works
> > normally.
>
> Well, that _is_ odd, but if a fresh install works I'm not too worried.
> I'll also be using 15.04, maybe that helps.
>
> > 2. Sound is not working at all.  It works fine on the live disk, and
> > presumably I can track down where the problem is introduced, but I
> haven't
> > gotten that far yet.
>
> Again, maybe 15.04 will make a difference, if not then I guess I can
> buy some sort of USB sound thingy.
>
> It does not appear to be a hardware problem, but some oddity in config
files.  Sound works normally when booting Windows, and did from the start.
I suspect an added sound thingy would just add to the confusion.  I hope to
have more insight soon.


> > 3. There is an extra set of SATA express connectors that are
> non-functional
> > by design.  Don't make the mistake of trying to use them.  I spent hours
> > trying to figure out what was wrong with my DVD drive, when it was
> > connected to a useless socket.
>
> Do you mean that there are two SATA Express connectors that work and
> two that are disabled, or just two that doesn't work at all? It sounds
> like the former, I just want to be sure.
>
> A SATA express connection has 3 parts.  Two of them are ordinary SATA-III
connectors and can be used as such if you don't need the SATA Express
capablity.  The third is unique to SATA Express.  So the second SATA
express connection contains two disconnected SATA-III connections.  The
first SATA Express connection has its own two SATA-III ports that work
normally.  In total the board has 8 useable SATA-III ports, two of which
are part of a SATA Express port.  I'm using 7 of the 8, for 2 SSD drives, 4
4-TB HDDs and a DVD-RW.


> Thanks again,
>
> Petter
>
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