I always prefer Intel products. Does anyone got any experience on any of these boards ? On 1 November 2010 23:05, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote: > At Mon, 1 Nov 2010 11:51:49 -0500 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > ---Executing: recode > > Well it depends on what you want in your new board, workstation vs > > server....I just built 2 machines based on this board....MSI 785G-E53 AM3 > > 785G...with amd quad cores....one is acting as a server and centos 5.5 > > loaded up just fine with no issues, running KVM with a couple of > VM's....I > > would look at the 1055T or 1090T CPU which have 6 cores and would > probably > > give you better performance if you want to run 4 or 5 vm's.....the one > thing > > that I did was use a pata DVD burner...since I have heard of issues with > the > > sata versions and centos....I prefer amd to Intel since I'm always on a > very > > limited budget...;) > > I have a SATA DVD burner: Optiarc Model: DVD RW AD-7241S and it works > just fine under CentOS 5.5 on a AMD Sempron(tm) Processor LE-1300 system > (ASRock K10N78 motherboard). I did have to add the 'irqpoll' kernel > parameter to get the SATA ports to work. > > > > > On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Basil Kurian <basilkurian at gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > Which among these three motherboard is the best supported in Linux > > > (Centos/Ubuntu) ? > > > > > > > > > Intel® Desktop Board DH55HC [ > http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=42409 ] > > > > > > Intel® Desktop Board DP55WG [ > http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=40078 ] > > > > > > Intel® Desktop Board DP55KG [ > > > > http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/DP55KG/DP55KG-overview.htm > ] > > > > > > > > > > > > Also which will be a good processor , for using in a desktop PC to run > 4 or > > > 5 Virtual machines concurrently on VirtualBox or VMWare ESX server ? > > > > > > > > > Intel® Xeon® Processor X3460 [ > http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=42931] > > > or > > > Intel® CoreTM i7-870S [ http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=48498 ] > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Regards > > > > > > Basil Kurian > > > http://basil.co.nr > > > RSA Public key : gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 41005549 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > CentOS mailing list > > > CentOS at centos.org > > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > > > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > > -- > Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / heller at deepsoft.com > Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ > () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail > /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Regards Basil Kurian http://basil.co.nr RSA Public key : gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 41005549 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20101102/5ae4b103/attachment-0004.html>