Dear list readers,
sorry for bothering you.
I want to buy a new mainboard with the following features.
1. It has to be supported by coreboot. 2. I want to have a board with onboard graphics, since I do not play any games. I hope to save power this way. 3. Probably it should support a processor with at least 2 GHz. 4. Firewire would be nice.
(I want to maybe do some video editing once every three months.)
Of course I read [1]. It looks like I have to make a decision between onboard graphic and firewire – but 2. has higher priority (or is my assumption regarding power consumption wrong).
So this is my result.
- GIGABYTE_GA-2761GXDK [2] (the link in the wiki on the board [3] somehow leads to [4])
Unfortunately this board seems not to be available in Germany/Europe(?). Therefore I weakened requirement 1. a little bit to 1‘.
1‘. It has or will have coreboot support.
That is why I am planning to buy the ASUS M2V-MX SE [5] having read the announcement from Rudolf Marek [6].
Any thoughts/suggestions from you to my decision/requirements.
Thanks a lot for your time.
Paul
[1] http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards [2] http://www.coreboot.org/GIGABYTE_GA-2761GXDK_Build_Tutorial [3] http://www.rssfeedbus.com/index.php?showtopic=1515 [4] http://www.modolog.com/ [5] http://www.asus.com.tw/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=101&l3=324&l4=0&... [6] http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2008-March/032582.html