On 1 juil. 07, at 21:31, Ravi Pokala wrote:
My main concerns are that the networking is well supported (GigE
preferred of
course), and that there are lots of supported on-board SATA ports. I
currently have four SATA drives, so I'd prefer six or eight ports
on the new
board for growth.
I'd also like decent on-board graphics, on the off chance I want
to dual-boot
it to play some older games. In FreeBSD, it just needs to be
supported enough
to give me a VGA console.
You probably won't find 8 SATA ports and onboard video, these two
just
don't match. You either take a high-end board with lots of
features, but
*never* have onboard video (IGP), of you take a microATX board with
onboard video which have 2 maybe 4 SATA ports.
Heh. You're right of course. I wasn't able to find any 8-SATA
boards with
onboard video, but I did find a few 6-SATA boards.
just take a look at these:
8 SATA / 8MB SVGA
http://supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/E7501/X5DPL-TGM.cfm
2+8 SATA / 8MB SVGA
http://supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon800/E7520/X6DHT-G.cfm
8 SATA / 8MB SVGA
http://supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron/nforce/H8DCE-HTe.cfm
You'll probably find others at Tyan, may be with better video (more
choice, and up to 16MB).
regards,
patpro
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