Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 03:52:23 -0500 From: "Tamouh H." <hakmi@rogers.com> To: "'Doug Hardie'" <bc979@lafn.org>, "'freebsd-questions'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Motherboards Message-ID: <20060328085210.D007643D48@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <90B77A9F-FFE4-4227-80B1-FBF3DDC707B6@lafn.org>
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=20 >=20 > I have a number of servers that are reaching end of life. =20 > They are over 7 years old and I can no longer find IDE drives=20 > that work with the slower controllers they have. These are=20 > all towers and use ASUS motherboards. Those were quite cheap=20 > at the time and the boards have worked very well over the=20 > years. However, I am now hearing rumers that ASUS=20 > motherboards are no longer the best quality and probably=20 > should be avoided. Don't need much on the machines, but do=20 > have to have 2 NICs and a SCSI controller on each. What are=20 > good, rock solid, motherboards with FreeBSD 6.0? I can't speak for FBSD 6 best motherboard, however, regarding ASUS their = quality is not as good as it used to be. I deal with number of computer = suppliers and we're beginning to see more common ASUS motherboard = problems. In the entry level market if you're going to use Intel CPU = maybe it is best to stick with Intel boards (they are not flexible, but = quality wise pretty good). If in AMD, I see NForce chipsets most = popular. Tamouh
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