My AMD cpu died after only five years. Rather than replace the CPU on the ASUS mobo, I have decided to upgrade to more recent technology, preferably Intel LGA 1151 socket type. After using AMD technology for about 15 yrs, I am ready to make a switch.

I am looking online at ASUS, ASROCK, and Gigabyte boards. Right now I am leaning towards Asrock, mainly because of the price. I understand that this is a lower end ASUS.

Has anyone had problems setting up Linux on Asrock?

I have also read that Gigabyte is good quality, but its UEFI firmware is not Linux friendly. Has anyone encountered problems with Gigabyte?

Finally, I am planning to reuse the Corsair H100i water cooler and Enermax Platimax WPM850EWT PSU. Does anyone see any potential pitfalls here?

Any help will be appreciated.

Hi:

There is an As Rock review here in our HCL:-

https://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/index.php/cat/8

Over the years I have seen many discussions on members here that were happy with their As Rock and Gigabyte boards.

Most of the mobo's today have the UEFI so the way around it is to disable the secure boot and the quick boot in the BIOS.

You'll have to wait for other members to chime in on that as I don't have a Gigabyte mobo.

I'm not familiar with the Corsair H100i water cooler and Enermax Platimax system so I can't say if there could be pitfalls or not.

Good Luck with your purchase and enjoy your build.

Here's a few links to help others to help you.

http://www.corsair.com/en-us/hydro-s...uid-cpu-cooler

Gigabyte has a lot of mobo's! So; you might want to share which one your thinking of purchasing:-

http://www.gigabyte.us/Motherboard

https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/

https://www.asrock.com/mb/index.us.asp

Gigabyte mobo: Disable the secure boot:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ky20Ywo3Eo

READ your mobo book it's your friend:-

The main website I am looking at is newegg.com. I am going through the customer reviews. My main concern is reliability and longevity.

Compared to my last build five years ago, I am surprised that Asus is only getting 2 and 3 star reviews. Gigabyte seems to get some good reviews.

I am leaning towards an Asrock that I saw there. It gets 5 stars from customers, whatever that means.

below is inxi info about my mobo, works well with fedora 26-27

Fedora is also my primary distro. It is already installed on the hard drive.

When I install the new mobo, I am hoping everything will boot up without problems.

plasmonics,

Some comparative mobo failure rates here:
https://forums.anandtech.com/threads...oards.2499756/

Asrock, ASUS and Gigabyte mobos usually get positive feedback from customers, but less so for MSI.

You should not go wrong with any one of the first three.

All my boards are Gigabyte and I have encountered no problems at all over the years.

I have an old machine I use regularly with a Gigabyte motherboard in it. It's a Core 2 board with a P35 chipset. That thing has been chugging along with daily use for about ten years now. No problems at all. I'm pretty sold on Gigabyte boards at this point. I always use them.

Fedora should support newish boards quite well. They tend to have a somewhat new kernel by default.

The cool thing about Fedora is it's cutting edge.
Since Fedora is the test bed for Red Hat so you can bet your boots that Fedora has the current stable version of the kernel.

So it looks like the failure of my AMD cpu/mobo after five years is unusual. I have had hard drives fail before, but never a mobo or cpu. And this one was water cooled with MX-4 paste.

Anyway, I ordered an Asrock Z270 Extreme 4 LGA 1151 along with an i7 cpu. Keeping my fingers crossed and hoping for about ten years service without failure.

That's a sweet mobo-
https://www.asrock.com/MB/Intel/Z270...eme4/index.asp

Enjoy your build and do let us know how things go:-

Pretty amazing you can actually get ten years off a computer. There was a time a computer would be obsolete in just couple three years. Glad things have slowed down a lot. In my mind the household computers are just another appliance and the life of a typical household appliance is usually around ten years.

I think the advent of phone and tablets taking the place of personal computers is a part of it. They don't have nearly the computing power and I think it holds back the increase in resource demands that in the past created the need for a new computer pretty quick.

The final hardware configuration is

ASrock Z270 Extreme 4 LGA 1151 mobo
Intel Core i7 7700K cpu
Corsair Vengeance DDR4 300 2x8 DIMMS
Asus GeForce GTX 1050 GPU

Just to confirm for anyone interested, the Corsair H100i water cooler is compatible with the socket and works very well.

Fedora, Debian, CentOS, and LFS were already on the hard drive and booted up without problems.

Predictably, Windows 10 is giving problems. Snce the mobo was changed, the copy of windows is no longer activated. Fortunately, I seldom use windows.

One nagging problem is that the UEFI is supposed to auto-detect the native resolution of the monitor and display the firmware screen, boot loader screen, etc, in 1920x1080. Instead, it is displaying in 1024x768. I don't know if this is because I am not using the onboard Intel GPU.

You should be able to change the resolution to 1920 x 1080. Just use the xrandr command to change it.

Run xrandr to see the current resolution. Than use xrandr -s and the number after it to change it.

For example 1440 x 900 is 0 in the list.
2560 x 1600 is 1 in the list and
1920 x 440 is 2 in the list

So If I wanted to change the resolution to 1920 x 440 I would run:

That should do it; provided that resolution is listed.