Re: Motherboard advice

[Jelle Hermsen <jelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/30/2012 08:06 AM, Francois Tigeot wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 05:37:41AM +0000, Jelle Hermsen wrote:
>> I'm going to build a new workstation and since I'll only be running Dragonfly I want to take this opportunity to get it right. I've been using laptops for years and I must admit I can't quite see the forest for the trees here. I know that I want to have ECC memory and I would love to have some kind of graphics chipset that just works without too much hassle (since I'll mostly be running a terminal in X).
>   
> Have a look at the supported hardware page:
> http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/supportedhardware/
>
> For ECC support, you'll probably need to use a server board and add discrete
> sound and graphics cards.
>
> These two Supermicro boards are the only ones with ECC support + sound
> onboard I know of:
> http://www.supermicro.nl/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9SRA.cfm
> http://www.supermicro.nl/products/motherboard/Xeon/C600/X9DAi.cfm
>
> There is also one Asus workstation board which *may* support ECC.
>
Thanks for the tip. I'll take a look at those Supermicro boards.

Cheers,
Jelle