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Bowie -<br>
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Let me apologize for not putting some specs out there right up front;
it is like saying I want a vehicle without stating that I haul tools
and sometimes a few bags of cement!<br>
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This is for a "light weight server" that is connected to DSL and just
affords my clients the advantage of downloading daily applications I
maintain via FTP. Also, my "photo clients" view my "digital proof
sheets"...very light weight stuff.<br>
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I need to replace my current board since it has "fake RAID" (Abit
BE7-RAID) and Centos will not install. The disks are IDE. Once it is
up, I just let it run and run...nothing special.<br>
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Todd<br>
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Bowie Bailey wrote:
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<pre wrap="">OK...now I go to the Intel section, and I am presented with these:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mwave.com/mwave/ViewProducts.hmx?PID=MOTHERBOARDBUN">http://www.mwave.com/mwave/ViewProducts.hmx?PID=MOTHERBOARDBUN</a>
DLES-INTEL&updepts=BUNDLE2&DNAME=Motherboard+Bundles%2D+By+MB
Are there some salient factors I should be looking at?
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That all depends... What are you looking FOR?
Why are you replacing the motherboard? Are you also replacing the
CPU? Memory?
Do you need IDE? SATA? RAID?
Do you have a video card, sound card, and NIC or do you want them built-in?
Do you want PCI-e?
Do you need USB? Firewire?
CentOS should be compatible with most motherboards out there. You may
have to find drivers for an oddball video or sound chipset. On-board
raid you are probably better off ignoring and using software raid
instead. I usually look for boards from Asus or Abit. Intel boards
are good as well, but usually don't have as many features and don't
perform as well on the benchmarks.
You may want to check out Newegg.com. They've got good prices and
selection and quite a few customer reviews on the popular products.
Bowie
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