John Plemons wrote: > I would look at Tyan, Soyo, and Intel for middle of the road > performance, but more over for dependability... I have also had very > good luck with MSI, Asus... Same here, Tyan for the really important systems (complete with ECC) inside a SuperMicro rack case. Asus for the desktops / less important servers. (I really like the Asus M2N designs, because they use heatpipes to cool the chipset. Which means one less fan, a.k.a. moving part, to worry about in our boxes.)