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On Sun, October 28, 2012 7:19 am, Arnold Krille wrote:

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> On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:46:49 +0000 Kaza Kore

> 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

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> 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

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> 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

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