[CentOS] CentOS 4.3 on Intel Xeon Core 2 Duo

> CPU:   2x Intel Xeon 5100 2GHz
> Board: Intel S5000 chipset
> RAID5: 3ware 9550SXU-4LP

It appears you did not encounter this problem?

http://www.3ware.com/kb/article.aspx?id=14932


With regard to the stability issues I raised in the other thread, the 
korean portal that did should have been in a position to provide proper 
power supplies and cooling or maybe not. I guess it is safe to say that 
Woodcrest + FB-DIMM = hot.


You may therefore want to go with the board that Joshua is using since 
he has not encountered stability problems. It does have 64-bit PCI-X 
slots for your 3ware card.