-----Original Message----- From: Dan Trainor dan.trainor@gmail.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:18:58 -0700 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Motherboard recommendations

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.

Thanks.

Hi, Bowie -

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.

Hope that helps -dant Are you running commercial server? 450-500 USD for a motherboard is too much. I have Asus p4s8x(the worst and cheapest motherboard that asus has been produced) running centOS4.2, fedora 4, gentoo without any problem and I can even play most game in windows XP. I got it 2 years ago for 50USD, now you can find less than that. It is a piece of crap for gammer but i works fine with centos. THAI ________________________________________________________________________ Check Out the new free AIM(R) Mail -- 2 GB of storage and industry-leading spam and email virus protection.

On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 23:13 -0500, David Evennou wrote:

Hello Members,

Does anyone have some references to web sites where computer hardware is rated? (Motherboards, Processors, Memory, etc.) Also, perhaps recommended computer components that work well together? I am planning to build some workstations and servers that run CentOS:)

TIA, David

This is not specific to linux or centos ... but here are 2 hardware rating sites:

http://www.tomshardware.com/

http://www.anandtech.com/