I guess one question is, what is your budget?? Makes a big difference in the quality that you get... john Rudi Ahlers wrote: > 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? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 269.23.16/1434 - Release Date: 5/15/2008 7:24 AM > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080515/df9286e1/attachment-0005.html>