Anyone going for the Zotac Z68?

Subliminal Aura · 19 Sep 2011 at 17:15

hagano said:
eltebe, I have a little headless debian box and now want something for running Ubuntu with gui. The z68 has everything I need and want but I can't seem to google any Information if the z68 will play nice with Ubuntu. In fact you saying "running headless linux box" is the first hint I found that tells me, it should be possible The debian box I bought was labeled as being a linux system, this will be my first time "self made". So, I'm unsure. Do you think it should run Ubuntu? Wireless? Which linux run's on your z68?

Hi Hagano,

Welcome to the forums ... Judging by your post - long time lurker first time poster ?

Personally I think z68 has too much grunt for linux and is maybe overkill... The htpc in my sig runs Ubuntu LTS with xbmc, is a NAS and development server - The loadavg rarely goes over 0.2 :cool:

Slap some RAM in it and decrease swapiness for a nice running box

hagano · 19 Sep 2011 at 18:20

Aura, that box looks beautiful! Congrats!
"Too much grunt" - well, my doubts were more like, does ubuntu run on that motherboard in the sense of: will ubuntu be able to boot? Will it recognize that wlan? And all the other .. stuff? I really don't have a clue :rolleyes:

I read about chips and Realtek and ... drivers, booting or not booting ... and this is what I figured out so far. But if that's no point at all for you, I can assume it's a no brainer and it will of course boot :cool:

?

saitrix · 19 Sep 2011 at 18:39

Subliminal Aura said:
In the right hands you'll get a 330 down to under 20W irrespective of insignificant LEDs

In the right hands you can get an i3-2100 down to 17w idle.

Subliminal Aura · 19 Sep 2011 at 18:57

saitrix said:
In the right hands you can get an i3-2100 down to 17w idle.

Muuhhahhahhah ! Challenge accepted

hagano said:
Aura, that box looks beautiful! Congrats!
"Too much grunt" - well, my doubts were more like, does ubuntu run on that motherboard in the sense of: will ubuntu be able to boot? Will it recognize that wlan? And all the other .. stuff? I really don't have a clue I read about chips and Realtek and ... drivers, booting or not booting ... and this is what I figured out so far. But if that's no point at all for you, I can assume it's a no brainer and it will of course boot ?

Oh ic your point... Well linux is very good with hardware but I don't have direct experience with that board