[sclug] Motherboard suggestions

[alan c]

On 23/04/13 16:52, Derek M Jones wrote:
> All,
>
> It looks like its time to update my Asus A8N-SLI Premium motherboard
> (system built in 2005, 3 DDR memory stick failures, 2 power supplies
> given up the ghost).  I am getting intermittent hangs and swapping
> out the memory does not seem to make these go away.
>
> I originally built the system to house lots of hard discs (total
> of 3T) and so I chose a motherboard with lots of SATA ports (8).
>
> The nearest Asus equivalent I can find today is the P8Z77-V.
>
> Does anybody have suggestions for reliable motherboards supporting
> lots of SATA ports?  Support for a PS/2 port would be a plus; I
> love the old IBM keyboards and the PS/2 -> USB connectors seem
> to result in support for some characters disappearing.
>

Not sure about sata but I made sure to get a mboard with a real option 
to turn off uefi and just use legacy (BIOS), because I only use ubuntu.
-- 
alan cocks