Cen Tos wrote: > > > On 3/31/07, *John R Pierce* <pierce at hogranch.com > <mailto:pierce at hogranch.com>> wrote: > > thats a desktop motherboard, not really what I'd consider 'server' > grade. Now, if this is just a SOHO 'server', that may not matter, but > if this is going into a colocation site to host production websites, > I'd > want a 1U or 2U server with niceties like hotswap hard drives, redundant > power supplies, and ECC memory, perhaps one of the Tyan or SuperMicro > servers. > > > This is going into a 4U chassis with redundant PSU and hotswap :) The > remaining hardware is largely constrained by budget. But of course, if > anybody has a better suggestion for a reasonably priced board from Asus > or Gigabyte that has two NIC, supports Core 2 Duo and ECC with onboard > graphics, I'm all game :) I don't think you need confine yourself to motherboards with dual NICs. It is so easy to add an additional PCI NIC card .... [snip]