On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Eduardo Grosclaude <eduardo.grosclaude at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > Can somebody recommend CentOS-OK, dual socket motherboards for compute > elements? A quick look up at Intel pages suggests they are thinking of > them as "server boards", but then they recommend them as "for SMB", > I'm somewhat puzzled about it. > It would be nice to know what MBs you are using, pros and cons. > Thank you in advance Hello! We need more details... what's your budget, what processor are you looking at? SMB just means Small / Medium Business ... as opposed to a huge enterprise server that might have four or eight sockets... Name a vendor, I've probably had some sort of trouble with them... of the "Big Names", Intel is probably the least troublesome. I just returned a bad Tyan board, and late last year returned two Supermicro servers that were shipped with out of date hardware (not supporting 5400 series CPU). I have an Asus board that runs Linux and Opensolaris just fine, but will not allow any version of Windows to install. I hope this is some help to you. Gordon