RE: HA server mainboard recommendations?

["Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Will check the 6400 out.

Re the board, I don't *need* fancy graphics, firewire, dual NIC's, or
7.1 sound. Which isn't to say that I'll explicitly try to avoid getting
them, but I most likely won't use them.

What I *Will* use however, and definitely need, are:

*Minimum* of 2 PCI slots (and ideally 3 or 4)
IDE interface for optical drive, and probably for HDD's as well (I have
a goodly stash of IDE 250GB drives)
Able to support 4GB RAM
1 Gigabit NIC
PS2 keyboard & mouse ports (I have a PS2 based KVM in the rack)
STABLE!

I don't give a hoot about PCI-Express slots, although I imagine it will
be impossible to find a board with an AGP slot, so reusing any of my
stash of spare graphics cards probably won't be an option... - so the
Supermicro with built-in graphics (albeit relatively primitive) ticks
one box in not forcing me to buy another PCI-E GPU... - only the lack of
IDE concerns me, and I suppose that is easily solved with an add-in PCI
IDE card...

Cheers.

Paul G.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of
> Ian Lowe
> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 4:44 PM
> To: UKHA_D Group
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] HA server mainboard recommendations?
>
> > Chaps, I'm thinking of upgrading my HA server to a nice new core
duo
> CPU, (probably the 6600) and I'm looking for any recommendations for a
> good, solid, reliable board to run it on.
>
>
> Consider the E6400 instead - it's only fractionally slower, but is
made on
> a
> different process, so runs cooler - great for a server.
>
> I just got a new PC with an E6400 - my focus was games performance,
but
> that's largely a function of the kickass GFX card - the mobo/core2
pair is
> a
> solid choice.
>
> It's an ASUS P5N32-SLI Deluxe - well loaded with features, dual
gigabyte
> Ethernet, 7.1 sound, all the toys (firewire, stacks of USB2 ports...)
>
> No complaints so far - screamingly fast, rock solid.
>
> Ian.
>
>
>
>
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