Motherboard recommendations

[Fulko Hew]

I'm looking for the best bang for my buck, and of course
Linux (Fedora) compatibility.  My criteria are simple:
- inexpensive
- best bang for the buck
- must have PCIe 3.0 x 16 slot

If I pick Intel based, I'm pretty much assured everything will work,
but it seems that going AMD will get me better bang-for-the-buck,
but ... will all the parts work with Linux?

I'm currently looking at a Gigabyte B450M DS3H with an AMD Ryzen 5 3600 CPU.

Does anyone have experience with it, or can recommend anything else
comparable and 'current'.

Thanks
Fulko

[Richard Shaw]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 9:17 AM Fulko Hew  wrote:
> If I pick Intel based, I'm pretty much assured everything will work,
> but it seems that going AMD will get me better bang-for-the-buck,
> but ... will all the parts work with Linux?

Yup, all of my desktops are AMD and have been for decades.
> I'm currently looking at a Gigabyte B450M DS3H with an AMD Ryzen 5 3600
> CPU.

I have a Gigabyte X370 w/ Ryzen 5 2600, the only problem I had was I needed
to flash the BIOS. It's been rock solid ever since.

My son has a Gigabyte Aorus X570 w/ Ryzen 5 3600 and it runs Fedora just
fine. I wouldn't worry too much unless you got into bleeding edge or stuff
with strange hardware, neither of which should be the case in your budget.

Thanks,
Richard

[Tom Horsley]

For what it is worth (probably not much), I just built a new
system with a GIGABYTE Z390 AORUS Ultra, selected primarily because
it had 3 M.2 slots on the motherboard, so I could replace all my
rotating disks with much speedier M.2 sticks.

[Mauricio Tavares]

This is a good discussion for me since I too have been thinking on
getting a somewhat modern AMD motherboard. Things I would like is pcie
(ideally v4 but can do v3) slots (4+) and memory. The latter
requirement made me think on going to ebay and getting a server board
as those memory cards are cheaper. Non ECC memory is pricy.  CPU,
well, other than numa I do not need insane power.

I do have an ASRock gaming board that is old but never let me down. I
saw a MSI X470 (as a placeholder for this discussion) but even 64GB of
non ECC memory is not cheap.

[murph nj]

I just put together a new machine for myself.

ASRock B450M Pro 4  (you have to make sure that a firmware update was done
on the board for this CPU, early ones were not ready for the newer CPU)
Ryzen 7 3700X
(I used my existing nVidia 750Ti card, which requires their
proprietary drivers.)

Everything seems to work flawlewssy.

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:17 AM Fulko Hew  wrote:
> I'm looking for the best bang for my buck, and of course
> Linux (Fedora) compatibility.  My criteria are simple:
> inexpensive
> best bang for the buck
> must have PCIe 3.0 x 16 slot
>
> If I pick Intel based, I'm pretty much assured everything will work,
> but it seems that going AMD will get me better bang-for-the-buck,
> but ... will all the parts work with Linux?
>
> I'm currently looking at a Gigabyte B450M DS3H with an AMD Ryzen 5 3600
> CPU.
>
> Does anyone have experience with it, or can recommend anything else
> comparable and 'current'.
>
> Thanks
> Fulko
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