[CentOS] What do you think about this motherboard?

Tue Jul 5 06:06:40 UTC 2005
Feizhou <feizhou at graffiti.net>

Shawn M. Jones wrote:
> Shawn M. Jones wrote:
> 
>> Feizhou wrote:
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>>> Shawn M. Jones wrote:
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>>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
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>>> Shawn,
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>>> Can you please tell us which VIA chipset? I know some from the Apollo 
>>> line were horrendous since they had PCI latency issues.
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>> 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.

which is part of the KT266A :)

http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/chipsets/legacy/kt266a/

lists a '552-pin BGA VT8366A North Bridge'