Bowie - Let me apologize for not putting some specs out there right up front; it is like saying I want a vehicle without stating that I haul tools and sometimes a few bags of cement! This is for a "light weight server" that is connected to DSL and just affords my clients the advantage of downloading daily applications I maintain via FTP. Also, my "photo clients" view my "digital proof sheets"...very light weight stuff. I need to replace my current board since it has "fake RAID" (Abit BE7-RAID) and Centos will not install. The disks are IDE. Once it is up, I just let it run and run...nothing special. Todd Bowie Bailey wrote: > From: Todd Cary [mailto:todd at aristesoftware.com] > >> OK...now I go to the Intel section, and I am presented with these: >> >> http://www.mwave.com/mwave/ViewProducts.hmx?PID=MOTHERBOARDBUN >> DLES-INTEL&updepts=BUNDLE2&DNAME=Motherboard+Bundles%2D+By+MB >> >> Are there some salient factors I should be looking at? >> > > That all depends... What are you looking FOR? > > Why are you replacing the motherboard? Are you also replacing the > CPU? Memory? > > Do you need IDE? SATA? RAID? > > Do you have a video card, sound card, and NIC or do you want them built-in? > > Do you want PCI-e? > > Do you need USB? Firewire? > > CentOS should be compatible with most motherboards out there. You may > have to find drivers for an oddball video or sound chipset. On-board > raid you are probably better off ignoring and using software raid > instead. I usually look for boards from Asus or Abit. Intel boards > are good as well, but usually don't have as many features and don't > perform as well on the benchmarks. > > You may want to check out Newegg.com. They've got good prices and > selection and quite a few customer reviews on the popular products. > > Bowie > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051215/9f9b4b06/attachment-0004.html>