Re: Suggestions for Ryzen 9 motherboards

On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM Paul Floyd wrote:
> On 26/12/2024 17:30, Daniel Engberg wrote:
> Good board however there's very little that justifies the difference in price between X670E and X870E variants (spend that on a cooler instead). You can find a short summary here, https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/1fpk3cq/proart_x870ecreator_wifi_vs_proart_x670ecreator/ . Graphics is integrated  in the CPU so choice of motherboard doesn't matter in that regard. Without looking too much it's probably going to be a bit rough using 6.1 as a base. (My box is headless)
>
> I went with a Asus Rog Strix in the end.
> 6.1 does seem a bit rough, it gave me a kernel panic when I loaded it.

Can you please report back on how stable is FreeBSD on that hardware?
I am thinking about moving 14.2-RELEASE to new hardware very soon with
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X CPU (Zen5) and also some ASUS mobo (either X870E or
X670E not sure yet).

I plan to buy 6000MHz RAM in 64..96..128..192GB size for a ramdisk to
speed up build times.

This will be my development workstation and I also need good stable 3D
with multimonitor+rotation setup for CAD and multimedia so scfb
fallback is not an option because it does not support
multimonitor+rotation without gpu drivers even with no 3d
acceleration.

I will definitely buy second hand NVIDIA GPU because I am sick tired
of AMDGPU stability problems with my RX580 and I dont believe modern
built-in GPU will even work. After move to 14.2 (and drm-61-kmod) it
does not panic as on 14.0/5.15 but it gets hiccups that require
reboot.. far from 13.3/5.10 stability.. so I am considering just
replacing GPU and use nvidia drivers :-(

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