redbriar Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Hello, First post to the forums here but my motherboard recently died, being around 7 years old it had a fairly decent life but now stuck on choosing another board. Looking through all the posts i have seen a lot of problems with NIC's but some that were claimed to be fixed in the 6.0 beta 5 - beta 10. Is there anyway to clarify if this is still the case and then i can go ahead and order the new board to get back up and running. http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/FM2A88M%20Extreme4+/?cat=Specifications - Running on Qualcomm Atheros AR8171 chipset (apparently fixed in v6 beta's) http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/FM2A88X%20Pro3+/?cat=Specifications - Running on Realtek RTL8111GR ( i know realtek have had issues from the hardware guide but are these stil present?) I will be purchasing new cpu and ram at the same time but i have found no issues in my current choice's. Thank you Quote Link to comment
hernandito Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 Cough... ahem, cough, intel.. ahemmm... Quote Link to comment
BRiT Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 You will likely have far less problems switching to an Intel cpu and a motherboard using an Intel NIC. Quote Link to comment
redbriar Posted November 8, 2015 Author Share Posted November 8, 2015 Is there any good combinations to be found for around £200 for cpu, ram and motherboard. I have found the i3 4170 to be a good match on performance and price, but unsure as have only used higher up i5's for gaming. Quote Link to comment
garycase Posted November 8, 2015 Share Posted November 8, 2015 The i3 4170 is fine ... it's an excellent choice for an upgrade as long as you don't need I/O pass-through support (vt-d) for VM's. Supports ECC RAM if used on a server-class motherboard with a Cxxx series chipset, so it'd a very good choice for a fault-tolerant server. Quote Link to comment
slushieken Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Hello, http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/FM2A88M%20Extreme4+/?cat=Specifications - Running on Qualcomm Atheros AR8171 chipset (apparently fixed in v6 beta's) http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/FM2A88X%20Pro3+/?cat=Specifications - Running on Realtek RTL8111GR ( i know realtek have had issues from the hardware guide but are these stil present?) Do go with Intel. I started out all AMD as the pricing was irresistible, but I paid for it quickly in power consumption and compatibility issues with some HBA cards. The idle drain on those Intel boards is so low vs idle on AMD; it really eats your lunch. Quote Link to comment
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