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I guess one question is, what is your budget?? Makes a big difference
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Rudi Ahlers wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:482C486E.3040801@SoftDux.com" type="cite">Sam
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Ryan Nichols wrote:
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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..
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Ryan,
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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.
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What about Dell or HP server moderboards?
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