On Sun, October 28, 2012 7:19 am, Arnold Krille wrote: > On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:46:49 +0000 Kaza Kore <dj_kaza@xxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> TL/DR: >> Z68 - works with RAID5 on SATA2 ports OK? >> RME HDSP card - PCI or PCIe? >> Gfx card recommendations?? >> Or persuade me to go for a cheaper rig as I probably don't really >> need all that... >> >> Regards, Dale. >> > Regarding the raid5: > http://www.miracleas.com/BAARF/ > > And we (as the business I work for) have dismissed hw-raid in general. > A while back you only got problems if your controller broke and you > didn't have the same again. Nowadays you even get problems when you > update the firmware of the controller (or when your cold-standby > doesn't have the correct fw-version). Just stay away from it. > > For the Mobo: Use something from a brand known for quality. Asus might > do okayish laptops, their boards are almost as crap as asrock. For an > intel-system, why not use an intel board? The higher price is _small_ > when you take the higher quality into account. High-quality boards > last much longer and work better. > > PCI is dead, Alot of people would love to upgrade their older pci cards to new mobos. It's becoming a real hassle to find boards that allow that. > any graphics card with linux-support is good. Depends if you want to have an open source driver without acceleration or a closed source drive with acceleration. > Now the > salesman in me takes over: intel is actively supporting the > linux-community also in the graphics field, not like nvidia. I agree that Intel has become very supportive of Linux. They also have a dedicated Linux department. Out of interest which chipsets do you recommend from Intel that fully support accelerated graphics? > Yes, we > are an intel-reseller. We only see other hardware when its broken and > the customers want us to fix it or get the data of from it. > > Have fun, > > Arnold > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > -- Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
