I'm looking at setting up a new machine to run CentOS 5 and a few VMWare machines to test Windows XP, Vista, and 7. I'm working with a custom PC shop and they've recommended I use either the ASUS PT6 or Intel DX58SO. Any feedback good or bad on either of these?
Thanks!
--Chris
Chris Boyd wrote:
I'm looking at setting up a new machine to run CentOS 5 and a few VMWare machines to test Windows XP, Vista, and 7. I'm working with a custom PC shop and they've recommended I use either the ASUS PT6 or Intel DX58SO. Any feedback good or bad on either of these?
I run a similar setup with a DQ45EK, one gen before what you are recommended, it works perfect out-of-the-box with CentOS 5.2, with the new beta 5.3 kernel I do not need any kmod's so all devices are recognized directly http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5/ I run a CentOS 5.3beta 64bit xen kernel which works perfect
Chris Boyd wrote:
I'm looking at setting up a new machine to run CentOS 5 and a few VMWare machines to test Windows XP, Vista, and 7. I'm working with a custom PC shop and they've recommended I use either the ASUS PT6 or Intel DX58SO. Any feedback good or bad on either of these?
Neither of them seem to support ECC, not that I can recommend this board specifically but it does appear to support ECC and runs the i7:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/X58/X8ST3-F.cfm
Though all 3 boards seem to have the same chipset so it's possible the other two support ECC too. Also the Supermicro board has the advantage of having remote management support(IPMI 2.0) whereas the other boards don't seem to have anything like it.
The Asus has shitty networking on it(Realtek), I assume the Intel one has an Intel NICs, and the Supermicro has Intel as well.
nate
Thanks for the replies. I'll go with the Intel board. This is for a desktop development and test system, so remote management is not a requirement.
--Chris
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Chris Boyd cboyd@gizmopartners.com wrote:
I'm looking at setting up a new machine to run CentOS 5 and a few VMWare machines to test Windows XP, Vista, and 7. I'm working with a custom PC shop and they've recommended I use either the ASUS PT6 or Intel DX58SO. Any feedback good or bad on either of these?
CentOS 5.2 can not found 2 on-board NIC of ASUS P6T Deluxe series.
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