I guess one question is, what is your budget?? Makes a big difference
in the quality that you get...
john
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Sam Drinkard wrote:
Ryan Nichols wrote:
To all..
I was using a Gigabyte motherboard, and the board seems like a bad
choice. What do you guys recommend for a decent server board that
would use a Dual Core processor and DDR2 ram. I dont want to
replace the CPU and Mem i already have, just find a decent board
that supportsthe existing..
Thanks,
Ryan Nichols
Ryan,
About 2 years ago, I build a server using a SuperMicro X6DA8-2
motherboard and it is a dual xeon processor machine with capabilities
of 16G of DDR2 memory. It has dual gigabit ethernet ports, 6 usb 2.0
ports and a dual SATA controller as well as regular IDE bussmaster
capabilities. I've been very happy with it, and at the time, it was
not that expensive a board with the 2 cpu's on it. A couple months
ago, I recased the thing back into a SuperMicro case that was
optimized for that board and I wish now I'd done it when I first
built it. One problem I had with it was the cpu cooler fans. The
original ones were made by Intel, and they were noisy, terribly out
of balance and downright bad. I replaced them with 4-pin PWM fans
from SuperMicro and that machine is so quiet now, I have to feel of
it to make sure it's running. The thing runs about 90 degrees
operating and with the fans set up on the super quiet mode, it never
even breaks a sweat. There is another version of the board that has
a SCSI controller on board, but only one gigabit ethernet port.
Everything else is pretty much the same. I highly recommend
SuperMIcro boards and cases. Probably a bit more expensive than some
of the others, but in a server, I want quality, so I pay for what I get.
HTH
Sam
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