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

From: Daniel Engberg <daniel.engberg.lists_at_pyret.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 05:46:10 UTC 
On 2023-11-13T00:22:31.000+01:00, Greg 'groggy' Lehey
<grog@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Sunday, 12 November 2023 at 13:49:49 +0100, Paul Floyd wrote:
>>  On 12-11-23 11:35, Daniel Engberg wrote:
>>  
>>>   On Sunday, 12 November 2023 at 9:46:18 +0100, Paul Floyd wrote:
>>>   
>>>>    MSI MAG X670E Tomahawk
>>>   
>>>    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.
> 
> FWIW, I've just got a machine with this motherboard. It seemed the
> 
> best option available to me at the time, and I haven't had any
> issues
> 
> with it. Yes, the silly NIC (where do you find 2.5 Gb/s hubs?) is
> 
> irritating, but I need 2 NICs anyway, so putting in a second wasn't
> an
> 
> issue. I also couldn't find any motherboard that fitted the other
> 
> requirements and didn't have this NIC.
> 
> Greg
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Hi,

Nice! So the sata controller gets initialized correctly even on newer
BIOS versions? Does the Realtek NIC work ootb or do you need to use
the driver in ports tree? 2.5G switches aren't that uncommon these
days,

https://www.zyxel.com/global/en/products/switch/5-8-port-2-5gbe-unmanaged-switch-mg100-series

https://www.zyxel.com/global/en/products/switch/12-port-unmanaged-multi-gigabit-switch-with-2-port-2-5g-and-2-port-10g-sfp-xgs1010-12

https://www.zyxel.com/global/en/products/switch/12-port-web-managed-multi-gigabit-switch-with-2-port-2-5g-and-2-port-10g-sfp-xgs1210-12

https://www.zyxel.com/global/en/products/switch/12-port-web-managed-multi-gigabit-switch-includes-3-port-10g-and-1-port-10g-sfp-xgs1250-12

https://www.zyxel.com/global/en/products/switch/24-port-2-5g-multi-gig-lite-l3-smart-managed-switch-with-6-10g-uplinks-xmg1930-series

https://www.netgear.com/business/wired/switches/unmanaged/ms105/

https://geizhals.de/?cat=switchgi&xf=13266_2G5

Just to mention a few :)

Best regards,

Daniel