On 2014-09-08, Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: > > I gave on the SiperMicro quite a while ago. Not because of BIOS, but > because of hardware engineering flaws. Which at least manifests itself > with system boards for AMD CPUs. These (AMD) boards work reliably for only > 2-4 years, after that they die. Not all of them, but about 50% of > SuperMicro AMD server and mostly workstation boards (I have no experience > with their low end desktop boards if they exist) are dead after 3-4 years Huh. I have a bunch of SuperMicro boards with AMD CPUs, and have had only one die completely, and that was a DOA that I returned before putting into production. Are you saying dead-dead, like completely unusable, or sorta dead, where you get spurious and unexplained errors? --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us