Sam Drinkard wrote: > > > Ryan Nichols wrote: >> To all.. >> >> I was using a Gigabyte motherboard, and the board seems like a bad >> choice. What do you guys recommend for a decent server board that >> would use a Dual Core processor and DDR2 ram. I dont want to replace >> the CPU and Mem i already have, just find a decent board that >> supportsthe existing.. >> >> Thanks, >> Ryan Nichols >> > Ryan, > > About 2 years ago, I build a server using a SuperMicro X6DA8-2 > motherboard and it is a dual xeon processor machine with capabilities > of 16G of DDR2 memory. It has dual gigabit ethernet ports, 6 usb 2.0 > ports and a dual SATA controller as well as regular IDE bussmaster > capabilities. I've been very happy with it, and at the time, it was > not that expensive a board with the 2 cpu's on it. A couple months > ago, I recased the thing back into a SuperMicro case that was > optimized for that board and I wish now I'd done it when I first built > it. One problem I had with it was the cpu cooler fans. The original > ones were made by Intel, and they were noisy, terribly out of balance > and downright bad. I replaced them with 4-pin PWM fans from > SuperMicro and that machine is so quiet now, I have to feel of it to > make sure it's running. The thing runs about 90 degrees operating and > with the fans set up on the super quiet mode, it never even breaks a > sweat. There is another version of the board that has a SCSI > controller on board, but only one gigabit ethernet port. Everything > else is pretty much the same. I highly recommend SuperMIcro boards > and cases. Probably a bit more expensive than some of the others, but > in a server, I want quality, so I pay for what I get. > > HTH > > Sam > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > What about Dell or HP server moderboards? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za for Web Hosting stuff