Skip to main content

Help pick a motherboard for a desktop

I want a desktop computer and I am struggling with all the manufacturers website to find a motherboard with following requirements:

  • supports UEFI Secure Boot
  • has Intel Matrix Storage Technology (aka Intel Raid)
  • supports Ivy Bridge 22nm CPUs
  • supports up to 32GB or RAM
  • supports dual screens and 3D acceleration using preferably onboard Intel graphics
Many manufacturers do state UEFI, but do not say if SecureBoot is available (either out of the box or via firmware upgrade).

The Intel Rapid Storage comes with a few chipsets, but in most series it's an optional feature that may or may not be present.

Any recommendations? Or ways on how to find these details about motherboards?

Comments

  1. Anonymous12 February 2013 at 16:37

    Try and find a desktop running windows 8. 90%+ will have UEFI and SECUREBOOT that then just leaves you to track the other components you are after. The other thing to do is get onto the tech support prior to purchase to confirm too.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Unknown12 February 2013 at 22:32

    This comment has been removed by the author.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Unknown12 February 2013 at 22:33

    Here are two options: The ASUS P8Z77-V LE or the Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H. They both meet all of your criteria.

    -Supports UEFI Secure Boot
    This is a difficult one to answer, and the best way is to Google for specific motherboard models with UEFI secure boot in the keywords. It's how I verified the above boards have it. For example:
    http://www.gigabyte.com/MicroSite/314/windows8.html

    -Has Intel Matrix Storage Technology
    Almost all Z77 chipset boards will have an ICH10R paired with it. That's the southbridge you're looking for.

    -supports Ivy Bridge 22nm CPUs
    Any Z75 or Z77 will support these CPUs. The above motherboard will support even the higher TDP chips. Older Z6x series chipset boards will only support Ivy Bridge after a bios update. Not all motherboards may be capable of being adapted.

    -supports dual screens and 3D acceleration using preferably onboard Intel graphics
    Verified with the online copy of the motherboard manual, again Googling by motherboard model:
    http://www.manualowl.com/m/Gigabyte/GA-Z77X-D3H/Manual/273238
    Page 21.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

How to disable TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 on Ubuntu

Example of website that only supports TLS v1.0, which is rejected by the client Overivew TLS v1.3 is the latest standard for secure communication over the internet. It is widely supported by desktops, servers and mobile phones. Recently Ubuntu 18.04 LTS received OpenSSL 1.1.1 update bringing the ability to potentially establish TLS v1.3 connections on the latest Ubuntu LTS release. Qualys SSL Labs Pulse report shows more than 15% adoption of TLS v1.3. It really is time to migrate from TLS v1.0 and TLS v1.1. As announced on the 15th of October 2018 Apple , Google , and Microsoft will disable TLS v1.0 and TLS v1.1 support by default and thus require TLS v1.2 to be supported by all clients and servers. Similarly, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS will also require TLS v1.2 as the minimum TLS version as well. To prepare for the move to TLS v1.2, it is a good idea to disable TLS v1.0 and TLS v1.1 on your local systems and start observing and reporting any websites, systems and applications that...
6 comments
Read more

Ubuntu Livepatch service now supports over 60 different kernels

Linux kernel getting a livepatch whilst running a marathon. Generated with AI. Livepatch service eliminates the need for unplanned maintenance windows for high and critical severity kernel vulnerabilities by patching the Linux kernel while the system runs. Originally the service launched in 2016 with just a single kernel flavour supported. Over the years, additional kernels were added: new LTS releases, ESM kernels, Public Cloud kernels, and most recently HWE kernels too. Recently livepatch support was expanded for FIPS compliant kernels, Public cloud FIPS compliant kernels, and as well IBM Z (mainframe) kernels. Bringing the total of kernel flavours support to over 60 distinct kernel flavours supported in parallel. The table of supported kernels in the documentation lists the supported kernel flavours ABIs, the duration of individual build's support window, supported architectures, and the Ubuntu release. This work was only possible thanks to the collaboration with the Ubuntu C...
Post a Comment
Read more

Swapfiles by default in Ubuntu

4MB RAM card By default, in Ubuntu, we usually create a swap partition. Back in the day of 4MB RAM cards this made total sense, as the ration of RAM to disk space, was still very low. Things have changed since. Server, desktop, embedded systems have migrated to newer generations of both RAM and persistent storage. On the high performance side of things we see machines with faster storage in the form of NVMe and SSD drives. Reserving space for swap on such storage, can be seen as expensive and wasteful. This is also true for recent enough laptops and desktops too. Mobile phones have substantial amounts of RAM these days, and at times, coupled with eMMC storage - it is flash storage of lower performance, which have limited number of write cycles, hence should not be overused for volatile swap data. And there are also unicorns in a form of high performance computing of high memory (shared memory) systems with little or no disk space. Today, carving a partition and reserving twice...
Post a Comment
Read more