[CentOS] What do you think about this motherboard?

Tue Jul 5 04:37:53 UTC 2005
Shawn M. Jones <smj at littleprojects.org>

Shawn M. Jones wrote:

> Feizhou wrote:
>
>> Shawn M. Jones wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>> All I can do is reiterate my experience with a 3ware 9500 and a 
>>> motherboard with a VIA chipset.  The two don't play well together.  
>>> I switched to a Supermicro with an entirely Intel chipset (earlier 
>>> rendition of the one it looks like you're looking at), and have had 
>>> no downtime since.
>>
>>
>>
>> Shawn,
>>
>> Can you please tell us which VIA chipset? I know some from the Apollo 
>> line were horrendous since they had PCI latency issues.
>
>
> The southbridge chipset on the motherboard is VT8233A.  I believe the 
> northbridge is the KT266A chipset, but can't tell because it's covered 
> by a heatsink and fan.  The motherboard is an A-Bit KR7A-133 (no RAID).

Far be it to correct my own post, but the northbridge is the VT8366A 
chipset.

--Shawn