Enrico, I can give you some advise on the motherboard and such. If your talking bang for your buck, go with an A-bit BP-6. With dual celeron 366's (PPGA) overclocked to 550 MHZ. You can find your cpu's on ebay or somewhere similar pre-tested and guaranteed overclockable. Modem, I would go with a Us Robotics (which is now owned by 3com).
You should be able to find both CPU's pretest (this is key) and the appropriate heatsinks for a total price of around: $168 or less, this price was one I received about a 5 weeks ago. So figure around $150 total. The A-bit BP-6 you should be able to pick up for $132 or less. I buy all my hardware from www.pricewatch.com, it is a listing of hardware dealers all over the country, I have yet to find cheaper prices anywhere on the internet or at a computer show. I along with a few of my friends run debian on these systems pretty similar to what you are looking to build. If you have any other questions, feel free to email me direct. -joe Enrico Zini wrote: > > Hello! > > I had many problems with Asus, and it was one of the brands people said to be > good. During my quest to solve many of these problems, I discovered that Asus > is likely to have problems, or just glitches, that make you loose time where > you shouldn't. > > Now, since there are many servers to build and configure awaiting for us, I > would like to build some knowledge on what to look for and what to try to > avoid. > > So, suppose I ask you to build a fast and reliable Debian server, something > that does file serving with samba, dials internet on demand via diald, spools > a > couple of printers, serves faxes via Hylafax, processes e-mail from, to and > within the intranet and performs backups of what's on it. > > What brand and type of motherboard, raid controller, CPU, modem and backup > system would you use, to be able to install Debian on it without risking to go > mad after some hardware flaw? > > What are good brands of motherboards? Asus? Intel? Soyo? Tyan? MSI? VIA? > Others? What are the ones to avoid like death? > > I'd also would like to find multiprocessor motherboards without expensive (and > Debian unfriendly) Adaptec cards integrated on them, since high end servers > are > likely to mount a custom raid controller like the Mylex AcceleRAID and don't > have a need for them. > > Is there some internet site where to look for this kind of informations? I > would like to avoid marketing hype and read about tests and real experiences, > possibly taking Linux and Debian into account. > > Read you soon! Enrico > > -- > GPG public key available on finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
