Dan Trainor wrote:
Bowie Bailey wrote:
I have been building my systems with Abit IS-10 motherboards, but NewEgg has stopped carrying them, so I need to switch to something new.
Does anyone have any recommendations on a solid motherboard that works well with CentOS? I need a motherboard with built-in video, LAN, and SATA. I don't need RAID or any other fancy features, just something cheap and solid.
I've been looking around, but there are lots of boards that look like they would work and I know nothing about any of them. I was just wondering what you guys are using.
This might be out of your target price range, but we just received 32 Intel SR1425BK1-E based systems a few weeks ago, and to tell you the truth, they're the most rock-solid motherboards I've ever used. Period.
Looks like the board alone will run anywhere between $450-500 USD, but my experience tells me that it was well worth it.
You can find more information here:
http://www.intel.com/design/servers/boards/SE7221BK1-E/index.htm
They've been running CentOS 4.2 flawlessly for about two weeks now under extremely heavy load, and we haven't seen any problems.
Yea... That's a bit out of my price range. I'm looking for cheap boards.
Yea... That's a bit out of my price range. I'm looking for cheap boards.
hi bowie!
...ducking here cuz tiger-direct and it's bad rap thang but I seem to have pretty good luck w/Mach Speed's boards bought from tiger.. Mach Speed also gives lifetime warranty too! (for what it's worth)
John
rado wrote:
Yea... That's a bit out of my price range. I'm looking for cheap boards.
hi bowie!
...ducking here cuz tiger-direct and it's bad rap thang but I seem to have pretty good luck w/Mach Speed's boards bought from tiger.. Mach Speed also gives lifetime warranty too! (for what it's worth)
It's not worth much if you can't get them to honor it. Tiger Direct has a horrible reputation....
Cheers,
On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 11:20 -0500, Chris Mauritz wrote:
rado wrote:
Yea... That's a bit out of my price range. I'm looking for cheap boards.
hi bowie!
...ducking here cuz tiger-direct and it's bad rap thang but I seem to have pretty good luck w/Mach Speed's boards bought from tiger.. Mach Speed also gives lifetime warranty too! (for what it's worth)
It's not worth much if you can't get them to honor it. Tiger Direct has a horrible reputation....
lol, that's why I was ducking but I really have had no problems w/rma's from either Tiger or Mach Speed...matter of fact, I have one of the 3 mach speed boards rma right now...a new board should be here today or so....in the past, I went thru the rma cycle w/Mach speed w/no problems and geez, Tiger, you can return anything for your money back or replace w/no problems at all that I have ever had. soooooo ...but who am I???
John