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Eduardo Grosclaude wrote:
Hello, Can somebody recommend CentOS-OK, dual socket motherboards for compute elements? A quick look up at Intel pages suggests they are thinking of them as "server boards", but then they recommend them as "for SMB", I'm somewhat puzzled about it. It would be nice to know what MBs you are using, pros and cons. Thank you in advance
I'm running a really old mainboard, an MSI 694D Pro (MS-6321).
It is a dual socket, running two Intel PIII Cpppermine CPU's with an upper limit of 933MHz.
It is classified as a server board.
The board was new in 2000. The board was installed new, in 2004 (it laid around new in box for a long time), and ran RHEL3 from 2004 until I upgraded to CentOS 5.4 a couple months ago.
With 2 gig RAM, it runs well for a Desktop machine.
I figure I can squeeze another five years out of it, if I'm lucky. :)
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