Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2018 09:57:24 +0100 From: Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, eric@vangyzen.net Subject: Re: Good motherboard for Ryzen (first-gen) Message-ID: <E1g3djA-0004fN-Bx@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <205656c3-52a5-a75f-c352-8bf923b47b1f@vangyzen.net> References: <205656c3-52a5-a75f-c352-8bf923b47b1f@vangyzen.net>
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> I would like to build a Ryzen desktop.? Can anyone recommend a good > motherboard? I have oe of these: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/X370-XPOWER-GAMING-TITANIUM but I just saw how much they are charging for it these days! I got one at about half that. I did originally get a B370 based board, but chnaged up for the X370 after I decided on a higher power Ryzen 7 and someone on ths list (can't remember who, sorry) reminded me that it would be more stable with the better quality power supplies on the non budget boards. It's a great board though. Ignore MSI slighly silly (as usual) promotional blurb and look at the specs and it's an excellent piece of kit. > I'm planning on a first-gen, because the second-gen has similar > stability problems as the first-gen had, and AMD hasn't released errata > for the second-gen yet (as far as I know...I would love to be wrong). Note that the Ryzen problems on FreeBSD aren't 100% solved yet - the Linux emulator doesn't work in STABLE, which might affect you ? Since the last BIOS upgrade and the patches in STABLE the system is certainly stable enough for a desktop though. I have only had two lockups since the last set of upgrades and I suspect that might have been related to me running virtual machines under VirtualBox as I stopped doing that and it's been fine ever since. > I would like to be a cool kid with a Threadripper, but I can't justify > the cost, so I'm thinking maybe a Ryzen 7 with /only/ 8 cores.? :) heh, yes, 8 cores and SMT makes for a ridiculously fast machine. Try a buildworld with -j16 on it. > Ideally, I want an Intel NIC, ECC memory support, and a 3-year warranty. Don't know about ECC, but the Titanium has an Intel NIC in it that works fine with igb driver. I used to drop in a separate Intel NIC card as so many of the boards came with cheap Realtek, but I dont have to with this one. Let us know how you get on.... -pete.
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