John R Pierce wrote: > Mark Hull-Richter wrote: >> Slightly OT, but what are the best boards for CentOS (if any) and how do >> ECS boards stack up? >> > > In my experience Elitegroup aka ECS are only slightly better than PC > Chips, which are absolutely the worst. > > now, this doesn't mean that every board these guys make is bad, its > quite possible you could get a decent reasonably reliable system from > them, but the odds are probably against that. This is where I jump in and confirm that ECS is a scam and a disaster. There are a few models that seem to work well, but most ECS is just plain junk. I've owned and sold a few ECS products and will avoid them like I avoid ViewSonic LCD's in the future. > > for that matter, even the best manufacturers have had some flakey > boards and designs. My most reliable homebrew systems have been > built around Intel branded motherboards, yet anything in the early P4 > days using RDRAM was inherently problematic (i850, etc), even worse > were any of the Intel RDRAM chipsets that had the SDRAM bridges (i810 > etc) > > > of course, with CentOS 4 and earlier, many of the newest chipsets will > have problems with driver support for the onboard peripherals. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > __________ NOD32 2117 (20070315) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > > >