On 12/27/2013 07:11 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 03:40:43AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 12/25/2013 09:51 PM, Fred Smith wrote: >>> Hi all! >>> >>> I'm toying with the idea of spending some Christmas money on a new MB and >>> CPU to upgrade my desktop. >>> >>> Although I've always been partial to AMD chips, I'm tempted this time to >>> find something Intel-ish, I5, quad core, or so. >>> >>> In looking at mommyboards at New Egg and Amazon, I find so many I am >>> unable to make reasonable determinations regarding suitability, so am >>> hoping some of you who have new(ish) intel-compatible boards could >>> offer some hints. >>> >>> Also, I'd like to keep the cost of MB, CPU and RAM to no more (or little >>> more) than $300-350. (seeing as how apparently mid-range I5 chips cost >>> over 200 each, that may be a vain hope.) >>> >>> I expect that the newest ones may work with something bleeding edge >>> like Fedora (et al), but I like centos for my desktop since it doesn't >>> have the ridiculous churn rate of the more aggressive distros. I can't >>> bring myself to relish the thought of rebuilding my main desktop twice >>> a year (or even once a year). >>> >>> So, any suggestions will be greatly appreciated! >> I personally have recently built 2 different systems with with the Asus >> M5A99X Evo R2.0 motherboard. This one does not have a graphics card ... >> everything does work with CentOS-6.5 and RHEL7B1. >> >> It uses AMD CPUs and I have used several AM3+ CPUs, including Sempron >> 100, FX-6150, and FX-8150. >> >> https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A99X_EVO_R20/ >> >> One of the nicest features is it will detect and set a working BIOS >> memory timing with a press of a button on the board ... if you try >> something manually that is incompatible, a simple press of the button >> and reboot will get you back to a working config. > Johnny: > > I assume it has UEFI and "secure boot"? did you disable the secure boot > feature before installing? (AFAIK Centos doesn't yet support UEFI/secure > boot????) > > I have an existing pair of drives holding Centos in a software Raid-1 > configuration, and I'm assuming I can simply move them to the new > board, boot and be off to the races. Can you comment on that assumption? The software raid-1 should work fine ... plenty of room for drives on that board. As long as you have a normal file system on sata dirves, it should boot. You may need to reconfigure the hardware (obviously, different network cards, audio, video, etc.) The version of the BIOS that I currently have does have a secure boot turn off feature. (1302 x64 is my BIOS version) Looks like there are 5 newer versions of the BIOS than the one I have installed now.
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