Often had issues with S-M boards, they are tuned to get the best benchmark results which in my experience made them less reliable. Asus boards go a similar route to.. My firm favourite, through experience alone, is MSI.. P. Sam Drinkard wrote: > Does anyone have any experience with Super-Micro brand motherboards // > dual Xeon cpu's? Had to swap out my Tyan piece of junk and going back > with the S-M board. I believe it has similar north/southbridge chips > on it -- at least they are the intel MCH ICH5R and PXH plus the > 82546GB. One area that the Tyan board was seriously lacking in was in > the hardware monitoring department. The S-M board uses a winbond > 83627HF chip. Another area I'm wondering about is with the SATA > controller. Supposedly the ICH5R supports Raid 0, 1, and JBOD's, but > does CentOS handle the sata raid without difficulty? > > Tnx.. >