[CentOS] Best Motherboard
Rudi Ahlers
Rudi at SoftDux.com
Thu May 15 14:27:58 UTC 2008
Sam Drinkard wrote:
>
>
> Ryan Nichols wrote:
>> To all..
>>
>> I was using a Gigabyte motherboard, and the board seems like a bad
>> choice. What do you guys recommend for a decent server board that
>> would use a Dual Core processor and DDR2 ram. I dont want to replace
>> the CPU and Mem i already have, just find a decent board that
>> supportsthe existing..
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ryan Nichols
>>
> Ryan,
>
> About 2 years ago, I build a server using a SuperMicro X6DA8-2
> motherboard and it is a dual xeon processor machine with capabilities
> of 16G of DDR2 memory. It has dual gigabit ethernet ports, 6 usb 2.0
> ports and a dual SATA controller as well as regular IDE bussmaster
> capabilities. I've been very happy with it, and at the time, it was
> not that expensive a board with the 2 cpu's on it. A couple months
> ago, I recased the thing back into a SuperMicro case that was
> optimized for that board and I wish now I'd done it when I first built
> it. One problem I had with it was the cpu cooler fans. The original
> ones were made by Intel, and they were noisy, terribly out of balance
> and downright bad. I replaced them with 4-pin PWM fans from
> SuperMicro and that machine is so quiet now, I have to feel of it to
> make sure it's running. The thing runs about 90 degrees operating and
> with the fans set up on the super quiet mode, it never even breaks a
> sweat. There is another version of the board that has a SCSI
> controller on board, but only one gigabit ethernet port. Everything
> else is pretty much the same. I highly recommend SuperMIcro boards
> and cases. Probably a bit more expensive than some of the others, but
> in a server, I want quality, so I pay for what I get.
>
> HTH
>
> Sam
>
>
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What about Dell or HP server moderboards?
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