We run alot of supermicro boards (>5 types >300 boards) and they are in my experience very nice and reliable. Specifically I have a few (~100) X6DHxx boards that have ICH5, PXH and dual Xeons, rock solid. /Peter On Tuesday 04 October 2005 17.07, 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.. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Kjellström | National Supercomputer Centre | Sweden | http://www.nsc.liu.se -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051004/d32d024d/attachment-0005.sig>