Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-16 Thread Thomas Harold
Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: On 05/15/2008 04:24 PM, Sam Drinkard wrote: About 2 years ago, I build a server [...] What are the advantages of building your own server comparing with products from HP, Dell and IBM? Is it cheaper? I never heard of DIY server hardware market. Getting exactly w

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-16 Thread Thomas Harold
John Plemons wrote: I would look at Tyan, Soyo, and Intel for middle of the road performance, but more over for dependability... I have also had very good luck with MSI, Asus... Same here, Tyan for the really important systems (complete with ECC) inside a SuperMicro rack case. Asus for the

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-16 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Sam Drinkard wrote: Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: On 05/15/2008 04:24 PM, Sam Drinkard wrote: About 2 years ago, I build a server [...] What are the advantages of building your own server comparing with products from HP, Dell and IBM? Is it cheaper? I never heard of DIY server hardwar

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread Luke S Crawford
Simon Jolle sjolle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What are the advantages of building your own server comparing with > products from HP, Dell and IBM? Is it cheaper? I find that if you order the base package from Dell, you get a pretty good deal. sometimes better than buying the parts alone. But

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread Luke S Crawford
"Ryan Nichols" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Really? We bought that EXACT motherboard.. 10 to be exact and we've had 9 > fail and the 10th is on its way to major failure.. the odd thing is that > 10th one was the first one purchased and that was 6 months ago. Unless you have many hundreds of serve

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread Guy Boisvert
Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Guy Boisvert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The only downside is that sometimes, it takes time to get them. It's like Tyan has problem producing enough for market demand. Actually from my understanding its sort of the 'opposite'. Mark

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Guy Boisvert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The only downside is that sometimes, it takes time to get them. It's like > Tyan has problem producing enough for market demand. > Actually from my understanding its sort of the 'opposite'. Market demand for white-box m

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread Guy Boisvert
John R Pierce wrote: Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: On 05/15/2008 04:24 PM, Sam Drinkard wrote: About 2 years ago, I build a server [...] What are the advantages of building your own server comparing with products from HP, Dell and IBM? Is it cheaper? I never heard of DIY server hardware

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread Sam Drinkard
Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: On 05/15/2008 04:24 PM, Sam Drinkard wrote: About 2 years ago, I build a server [...] What are the advantages of building your own server comparing with products from HP, Dell and IBM? Is it cheaper? I never heard of DIY server hardware market. cheers S

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread John Plemons
Oh and for the rest of you to think about, a Tyan system, with 8 dual core CPU's, and 128 gig of Ram... Also New... John John R Pierce wrote: Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: On 05/15/2008 04:24 PM, Sam Drinkard wrote: About 2 years ago, I build a server [...] What are the advantages o

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread John Plemons
If interested, I have some new IBM's still under warranty, a couple of New Dells, and one or two new HP's john John R Pierce wrote: Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: On 05/15/2008 04:24 PM, Sam Drinkard wrote: About 2 years ago, I build a server [...] What are the advantages of buildin

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread John R Pierce
Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: On 05/15/2008 04:24 PM, Sam Drinkard wrote: About 2 years ago, I build a server [...] What are the advantages of building your own server comparing with products from HP, Dell and IBM? Is it cheaper? I never heard of DIY server hardware market. Well,

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: On 05/15/2008 04:24 PM, Sam Drinkard wrote: About 2 years ago, I build a server [...] What are the advantages of building your own server comparing with products from HP, Dell and IBM? Is it cheaper? I never heard of DIY server hardware market. cheers Sim

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread Simon Jolle sjolle
On 05/15/2008 04:24 PM, Sam Drinkard wrote: >About 2 years ago, I build a server [...] What are the advantages of building your own server comparing with products from HP, Dell and IBM? Is it cheaper? I never heard of DIY server hardware market. cheers Simon signature.asc Description: Op

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread Ned Slider
Juan C. Valido wrote: Well, I guess everyone's experience is different, I've got 2 GA-P35-DS3 with Core 2 duos and a GA-MA770-GS3 with a Phenom 9600 and I love them. I've never had a problem with a Gigabyte Motherboard. Some people love Asus and I've had several go bad on me, you figure. On Thu,

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread Juan C. Valido
Well, I guess everyone's experience is different, I've got 2 GA-P35-DS3 with Core 2 duos and a GA-MA770-GS3 with a Phenom 9600 and I love them. I've never had a problem with a Gigabyte Motherboard. Some people love Asus and I've had several go bad on me, you figure. On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 07:35 -05

RE: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread Dennis McLeod
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ryan Nichols > Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 5:35 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard > > Really? We bought that EXACT motherboard.. 10 to b

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread Karanbir Singh
John Plemons wrote: I guess one question is, what is your budget?? Makes a big difference in the quality that you get... dude, what with the emails with dozens of blank links and top posts and uncroped quotes ? It would be nice if you made the effort. Specially since you are using a MUA th

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Karanbir Singh wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: What about Dell or HP server moderboards? Dell - only use when you cant really afford anything else. HP - good stuff, hangs around forever and they usually have good functional support people. IBM - good stuff, but depending on the vendor you get, s

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread John Plemons
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 r

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread Karanbir Singh
Rudi Ahlers wrote: What about Dell or HP server moderboards? Dell - only use when you cant really afford anything else. HP - good stuff, hangs around forever and they usually have good functional support people. IBM - good stuff, but depending on the vendor you get, support is a bit of a l

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread Rudi Ahlers
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

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread techlists
What about SuperMicro? I've never used one personally, but my employer had some servers built with SuperMicro and those things reliably chugged along for years, never had any problems. Paul -- Original message -- From: John Plemons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I wou

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread Sam Drinkard
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

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread John R Pierce
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 th

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread John Plemons
I would look at Tyan, Soyo, and Intel for middle of the road performance, but more over for dependability... I have also had very good luck with MSI, Asus... john plemons Ryan Nichols wrote: Really? We bought that EXACT motherboard.. 10 to be exact and we've had 9 fail and the 10th is

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread Ryan Nichols
Really? We bought that EXACT motherboard.. 10 to be exact and we've had 9 fail and the 10th is on its way to major failure.. the odd thing is that 10th one was the first one purchased and that was 6 months ago. On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Juan C. Valido < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Personal

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread Juan C. Valido
Personally, I like Gigabyte motherboards a lot, the GA-P35-DS3L I use with Core 2 Duo (Quad) and DDR2. I though I was going to do better with the Intel DP35DP and guess what, I like the the Gigabyte Better (personally). On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 06:43 -0500, Ryan Nichols wrote: > To all.. > > I was

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread Linux
I guess your Gigabyte is a desktop one Well, in production I used to use Intel server and workstation boards. Not the best but more cooperative than most manifacturers with kernel team I guess. Currently I am testing some AMD stuff... On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:43 PM, Ryan Nichols <[EMAIL PRO