On 2014-05-16, m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> > Not sure what you mean by lightweight, but I've been happy with Asus and > Gigabyte motherboards. STAY AWAY from Supermicro: we have a bunch of > servers with 64 cores - so we're talking high end - which we bought from > Penguin, and we've had a *bunch* m/b problems, as in, we've sent back a > number of them for repairs, where they replaced the m/b. So, if high-end > servers are like that, I do *not* trust their quality control. As one other data point, I've had a few Supermicro motherboards, and have only had one bad one so far. (I'm less enamored of their IPMI implementation.) --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us