Re: Trying initial boot of FreeBSD (main so: 15) of Ryzen 9 7950X3D on an ASUS Prime X670-P WIFI: various dmesg -a lines; more

On 12-11-23 11:35, Daniel Engberg wrote:

> 
> The MSI board looks decent I guess, the x16/x4/x2 layout isn't great but 
> it's not horrible either depending on your use case. Never looked into 
> their lineup due to lack of a decent builtin NIC. You can get a separate 
> one but it's still an additional cost and takes of at least one PCIe slot.
> 
> ASRock boards in general appears to be a bit rough around the edges 
> (both hardware design and BIOS) especially low-mid range models, their 
> premium tiers gets great reviews though. I would really think twice 
> about getting a board with only one slot that has more lanes than 1x in 
> terms of "full size" PCIe slots and you're again stuck with the Realtek NIC.
> 
> As you said, the Asus board is pretty much like the MSI one however I 
> don't see why you'd go for that over the TUF Gaming X670E-Plus which is 
> pretty much the same board with some very minor changes such as no 
> optical output (quite a bit cheaper though).
> 
> The ProArt board also has a HDMI output? :-)
> https://www.asus.com/motherboards-components/motherboards/proart/proart-x670e-creator-wifi/ <https://www.asus.com/motherboards-components/motherboards/proart/proart-x670e-creator-wifi

My desk has a shelf with a scanner on it, so not much space for the 
monitor (I have thought about sawing off 10cm from the shelf so that 
there would be space for a 27" monitor). When I work from home with a 
Dell Windows laptop I usually use the hdmi socket. I suppose I could get 
a miniDP-DP cable instead.

I don't tend to have big RAM or networking requirements. The main things 
are decent speed, recent ISA (esp things like avx512 and preferably on 
the metal) and probably a fair number of disks. In the past I've 
partitioned disks for OSes but these days I usually have one boot disk 
per OS and then a few data disks. Right now I have about 400G of data on 
my zfs disks, mostly VBox VM images.

I'll have another think about the ProArt and peruse the TUF Gaming 
X670E-Plus.

A+
Paul