pc recommendation

I am using a Gigabyte board GA-H81M-HD2 with a Pentium G3220 which has gotten good latency numbers you can still find the board at newegg for around $60.
I did not have to do anything with the bios. In general I prefer gigabyte boards as they take abuse so much better. the ASUS boards unfortunately never fare well for long, not even the gaming boards.

Asus are good, but do have a nasty habit of using bleeding edge ethernet, wireless, video, sound, mousepads etc that often are not supported immediately in the Linuxcnc distros
(the Debian one should be OK because it is quite recent, but do check)

How can i check that?...........leaning toward the asus at this point

How can i check that?...........leaning toward the asus at this point

Use google, look up something like '{number/name of board} Wheezy' and see if there are reports of problems or it working well etc

Check the specs for the chipsets, research what drivers they use and see if Wheezy covers them

A search phrase like 'provides {name of driver} wheezy' usually works well, because the keyword 'provides' is present on all the online debian package details, and wheezy narrows it down to just those packages

It is all google-fu really

regards