what stops us from having an open source motherboard for a modern-ish platform, like am3/am4/am5? i know firmware can be a pain, but the chinese manufacurers can do it somehow.
the motherboard is usually the component that’s the most fragile in a gpu-less machine, thus what makes most sense to be open and repairable. plus not having to rely on the goodwill of manufacturers to actually sell their shit to us.
If that was an option I’d still be rocking my i7 920 with tri channel ram. That sucker could take anything I threw at it until the mobo started dying in 2021.
The only new mobos I’ve found with an lga1366 are dual socket server boards.
this is something i think regularly about doing.
what stops us from having an open source motherboard for a modern-ish platform, like am3/am4/am5? i know firmware can be a pain, but the chinese manufacurers can do it somehow.
the motherboard is usually the component that’s the most fragile in a gpu-less machine, thus what makes most sense to be open and repairable. plus not having to rely on the goodwill of manufacturers to actually sell their shit to us.
If that was an option I’d still be rocking my i7 920 with tri channel ram. That sucker could take anything I threw at it until the mobo started dying in 2021.
The only new mobos I’ve found with an lga1366 are dual socket server boards.