On Monday 15 November 2010 06:08 PM, Arun Khan wrote:
I was on vacation so please excuse the delayed response.
I was on vacation too and my mobo too conked off before that. I finally got myself a new system with Core-i3 + Intel DH55TC mobo and 2 GB DDR3 1333 MHz. RAM, 1 TB HDD, SATA DVD R/W. All this works out of the box with Ubuntu 10.04. I haven't tried out the HDMI and DIVX video outs. This board is good for light multimedia workstation type work. It has 4 RAM slots with a capacity upto 16GB ( No idea about 4 GB single RAMs). 4 SATA +2 eSATA ports. Good number of USB ports, faster bus speed of 1333 MHz. Gigabit LAN.
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Rony Billgnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
I have had a spate of problems with Intel branded motherboards (5 in the last 12 months - amongst them one workstation and one server class). The latest one being a RMA'd mobo failing within 2 weeks of receipt. I have no experience with other vendors re: mobo RMAs but with Intel one has to go through hoops [1] to convince their engineer that indeed the problem is with the mobo - resulting in a loss of 10-15 days.
[1] one of them asked me to use an exact 300W SMPS as it was specified in their spec.
I'm surprised that a workstation mobo uses only a 300W SMPS.