Q4OS and Huananzhi motherboard.

Rademes · 2020-12-09 18:01

Good day!
I want to restore my old PC, which has CPU - Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 and motherboard - Gigabyte GA-P43T-ES3G. The motherboard is 10 years old and was working hard! I expect, that it will die soon...it is time after all. So I want to buy This bundle of CPU, Motherboard and RAM.
The problem is, I do not now at all, will this motherboard work with Q4OS or another Debian based Linux distro? Maybe somebody knows it? As I figured out, the developers have tested it only on Windows 10.
P.S. Currently, I do not want to spend money on completely new PC.

techsys · 2020-12-26 09:53

I have a Huananzhi x79 system that I'll be bringing online sometime today. The motherboard I have isn't exactly like yours. I believe it's an older version, with only 2 memory slots. I've had Debian 10.7 on it before, but was distro hopping at the time. IIRC it felt kind of sluggish, but I honestly can't remember.
I think I'll go ahead and start the install. This will be a fresh install with no other OS on the system. I just have to move a bunch of wiring (remodeled my office/game room yesterday and got all the extra stuff piled up on the desk for that system)

I am also pretty new to linux, so will let you know from a newb how things went.

crosscourt · 2020-12-26 19:37

Ive seen a few of these boards and the experience wasnt good. Bios is bare bones, they dont come with CMOS batteries, they had USB 2.0 only, only 2 dimm slots. One of them wouldnt boot due to bios issues which we resolved later on. Overall stability wasnt good either with 2 of the boards.
Its cheap thus it looks really attractive for a build but at least for me, stick to reliable brands where youll get support and bios updates when needed, plus you get a full featured bios that helps with both stability or overclocking if you chose to do so. So far Ive seen about 10 Chinese made mobos and none of them were a good experience.
Many of these boards were running Ubuntu, one with Arch and the rest with Win10. and there werent any issues with those OS.

Last edited by crosscourt (2020-12-26 23:57)

techsys · 2020-12-26 22:10

I haven't had a chance to try installing it yet.
Crosscourt is right though. Ive seen a few of these boards not working right. I think I got lucky with mine. I've had Mx, *buntu, and a few other distros on it, without any problems.

crosscourt · 2020-12-27 00:02

At the very least you can adjust memory timings but there arent any voltage adjustments. Cpu adjustments are almost non-existent.
Depending on which board youve got the dimm slots are too close to the cpu, which has created some heat issues. We had some issues with capacitors on one board.

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#1 2020-12-09 18:01

Q4OS and Huananzhi motherboard.

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