On Tuesday 28 March 2006 07:49, John Cruz wrote: > I have to recommend MSI. I haven't run BSD on one yet but they have > always given me great performance and reliability over time. They're not > the cheapest, but I'd still rather have a low-end MSI board then the > most expensive Abit or PC Chips board > > Doug Hardie wrote: > > I have a number of servers that are reaching end of life. They are > > over 7 years old and I can no longer find IDE drives that work with > > the slower controllers they have. These are all towers and use ASUS > > motherboards. Those were quite cheap at the time and the boards have > > worked very well over the years. However, I am now hearing rumers > > that ASUS motherboards are no longer the best quality and probably > > should be avoided. Don't need much on the machines, but do have to > > have 2 NICs and a SCSI controller on each. What are good, rock solid, > > motherboards with FreeBSD 6.0?
I also like MSI. Several weeks ago I build a new "economy" server-desktop for one of my clients. I started out with an Asus K-8 series and it was so bad I ended up returning the board. I went with a MSI K-8T Neo and have had zero problems with it. The server is rock solid and everything works as advertised with no system tweaks necessary to set it up. I originally set it up for AMD64 but went back to I-386 because of lack of desktop support. I would recommend them highly for low-end servers. It's happily running 6-STABLE. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Mangohealth \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - XanGo - http://www.mangohealth.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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