[CentOS] What do you think about this motherboard?
Feizhou
feizhou at graffiti.net
Tue Jul 5 06:06:40 UTC 2005
Shawn M. Jones wrote:
> Shawn M. Jones wrote:
>
>> Feizhou wrote:
>>
>>> Shawn M. Jones wrote:
>>>
>>>>>
>>>> All I can do is reiterate my experience with a 3ware 9500 and a
>>>> motherboard with a VIA chipset. The two don't play well together.
>>>> I switched to a Supermicro with an entirely Intel chipset (earlier
>>>> rendition of the one it looks like you're looking at), and have had
>>>> no downtime since.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Shawn,
>>>
>>> Can you please tell us which VIA chipset? I know some from the Apollo
>>> line were horrendous since they had PCI latency issues.
>>
>>
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>> The southbridge chipset on the motherboard is VT8233A. I believe the
>> northbridge is the KT266A chipset, but can't tell because it's covered
>> by a heatsink and fan. The motherboard is an A-Bit KR7A-133 (no RAID).
>
>
> Far be it to correct my own post, but the northbridge is the VT8366A
> chipset.
which is part of the KT266A :)
http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/chipsets/legacy/kt266a/
lists a '552-pin BGA VT8366A North Bridge'
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