Re: Choosing new budget motherboard (Z87, H87 or B85). Any suggestions?
I'm looking at a contingency for a new rebuild of my Hot Rod gPC™ (2.9 GHz Advanced Micro Devices® Athlon 64® X2 5600+, 780G northbridge, SB700 southbridge, ATi® Radeon® HD™ 3200 GPU) around Intel® hardware, given the problems I have had in the past with LinUX Kernel 2.6.12-18-rt (originally tested in Ubuntu® 8.04-LTS) on AMD® hardware. The Asus® H87M-PLUS and H87M-PRO both fit my old Everex® TC2502 case as modified, and I reckon that a 2.4 to 3.2 GHz Intel® 4th-Generation Core™ will run LinUX Kernel 3.13.0-lowlatency reliably (as did 2.6.11-14-rt on the TC2502's original VIA® C7-D under Ubuntu® 8.04-LTS); plus they will take one of the larger Unicomp® Model M's built for IBM® 85xx-compatible systems - I have an On The Stick 122 contingency design incorporating a fallback pointing device, in the unlikely event that the USB drivers crash. (Not much luck with late-model micro-ATX's that will still support the disquette transport in my Mitsumi® FA404 combo drive, however, more's the pity.)
Anybody run into panics and oopses of Kernel 3.13.0-generic and/or -lowlatency on Intel® H87-equipped rigs running Ubuntu® 13.12a1 or 14.01a2? I'd like a heads up on any complication that might give cause to delay my dist-upgrade(s) to 14.04-LTS.
nVIDIA® nForce® chipsets require discrete GPU's up to Pascal and appropriate nVIDIA Kernel modules.
Most intel® ExpressSets™ and AMD® RS-Series are fully supported in open source.