Re: Suggestions for Ryzen 9 motherboards

On 28-01-25 17:05, Tomek CEDRO wrote:
> 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).

Too early to tell for stability, I've only been using it for a couple of 
days.

> 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 :-(

We'll see for that. I just want an IDE, after that I'm mostly running 
console apps. I might get a cheap fanless video card if I get fed up 
with scfb.

A+
Paul