From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 2 10:12:43 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F30F16A400 for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 10:12:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.web-strider.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23F4A13C43E for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 10:12:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from TEDSDESK (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l42ACfED096043; Wed, 2 May 2007 03:12:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Christopher Prance" , Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 03:14:12 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <200705011701.49035.lildevildude@gmail.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1896 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]); Wed, 02 May 2007 03:12:42 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Subject: RE: A good server motherboard. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 10:12:43 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Christopher > Prance > Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 8:02 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: A good server motherboard. > > > If you were to build a server using FreeBSD 6.2 , basically for home use, > serving media files, small web server, basically a very small load, which > motherboard would you recommend? Mid range as far as price is concerned. > Recently my father's home system's disk died, he wanted a faster system so I convinced him to buy a new MB, ram, HD and CPU and let me install it in his case (he had recently replaced the power supply with an ATX II supply) and reload Win2K on it, rather than go out and buy a new system with Vista preloaded, and then have to deal with 3/4 of his software not working and having to be upgraded. I deliberately selected the cheapest motherboard the local computer store had in stock - $89 it was. AMD Seperon CPU. Gig of ram, 80GB disk, etc. Manucturer was FIC or Elitegroup, I can't recall which. I was stunned and amazed at how advanced, how good, the board is. Easy to setup, no problem loading software, didn't have to use special drivers, and stable as a rock. And a host of features. I took his old board, a 2 year old Elitegroup something or other, AMD Duron, and made a BSD server out of that. Also, stable as a rock. I have to conclude that these days even the cheapest motherboards are far better than the most expensive boards were 10 years ago. Ted