if you go bp6 make sure to run a good amount of stress tests, my bp6 crashes constantly even with both cpus under 30C.
a good stress test i find for a system is run between 8 and 10 copies of [EMAIL PROTECTED] for at least 24 hours. my box crashes after a few minutes. (even with ultra wide scsi drives and 256MB ram) myk6-2 366(o/c from 300) with 128mb had about 6 million disk writes but survived the 24hours w/o a hitch. nate On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, jchawk wrote: jchawk >Enrico, I can give you some advise on the motherboard and such. jchawk >If your talking bang for your buck, go with an A-bit BP-6. With dual jchawk >celeron 366's (PPGA) overclocked to 550 MHZ. You can find your cpu's jchawk >on ebay or somewhere similar pre-tested and guaranteed overclockable. jchawk >Modem, I would go with a Us Robotics (which is now owned by 3com). jchawk > jchawk >You should be able to find both CPU's pretest (this is key) and the jchawk >appropriate heatsinks for a total price of around: $168 or less, jchawk >this price was one I received about a 5 weeks ago. So figure around jchawk >$150 total. jchawk > jchawk >The A-bit BP-6 you should be able to pick up for $132 or less. jchawk > jchawk >I buy all my hardware from www.pricewatch.com, it is a listing of jchawk >hardware dealers all over the country, I have yet to find cheaper jchawk >prices anywhere on the internet or at a computer show. jchawk > jchawk >I along with a few of my friends run debian on these systems pretty jchawk >similar to what you are looking to build. jchawk > jchawk >If you have any other questions, feel free to email me direct. jchawk > jchawk >-joe jchawk > jchawk >Enrico Zini wrote: jchawk >> jchawk >> Hello! jchawk >> jchawk >> I had many problems with Asus, and it was one of the brands people said to be jchawk >> good. During my quest to solve many of these problems, I discovered that Asus jchawk >> is likely to have problems, or just glitches, that make you loose time where jchawk >> you shouldn't. jchawk >> jchawk >> Now, since there are many servers to build and configure awaiting for us, I jchawk >> would like to build some knowledge on what to look for and what to try to jchawk >> avoid. jchawk >> jchawk >> So, suppose I ask you to build a fast and reliable Debian server, something jchawk >> that does file serving with samba, dials internet on demand via diald, spools a jchawk >> couple of printers, serves faxes via Hylafax, processes e-mail from, to and jchawk >> within the intranet and performs backups of what's on it. jchawk >> jchawk >> What brand and type of motherboard, raid controller, CPU, modem and backup jchawk >> system would you use, to be able to install Debian on it without risking to go jchawk >> mad after some hardware flaw? jchawk >> jchawk >> What are good brands of motherboards? Asus? Intel? Soyo? Tyan? MSI? VIA? jchawk >> Others? What are the ones to avoid like death? jchawk >> jchawk >> I'd also would like to find multiprocessor motherboards without expensive (and jchawk >> Debian unfriendly) Adaptec cards integrated on them, since high end servers are jchawk >> likely to mount a custom raid controller like the Mylex AcceleRAID and don't jchawk >> have a need for them. jchawk >> jchawk >> Is there some internet site where to look for this kind of informations? I jchawk >> would like to avoid marketing hype and read about tests and real experiences, jchawk >> possibly taking Linux and Debian into account. jchawk >> jchawk >> Read you soon! Enrico jchawk >> jchawk >> -- jchawk >> GPG public key available on finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] jchawk >> jchawk >> -- jchawk >> Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null jchawk > jchawk > jchawk >-- jchawk >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null jchawk > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 6:21pm up 106 days, 6:03, 1 user, load average: 1.33, 1.55, 1.60
