> > It's time for a new computer and I'm interested in folks thoughts about > motherboards for Athlon 64 CPUs. I intend to use SATA RAID1 via a 3ware > card. The machine will be used for a workstation as well as a server > that I use to store applications to be installed on other workstations, > as well as disk images. It will also be acting as a WINS server for > about 170 windoze boxen, and will be running Gentoo (of course!). The > workstation duties will be fairly light, and I'm looking for something > that's good at kicking out lots of data to other workstations. >
I'd use a 2P Opteron based motherboard. Tyan has been pretty good as has Arima for us. And IWill seems pretty solid. I'd stay away from MSI. They seem to have some reliability issues - we lost the memory channels on one cpu after 1 yr. of use. Look for one with dual GigE ports, AGP slot, and PCI-X. We do lots of data transfers over GigE weekly - iso installs to other systems. Thus NFS, TFTP, BOOTP all get beat on. As can be seen, we're still on 2.6.5, as I've been waiting for 2.6.10 to be marked stable, though I run it on my other AMD64 systems - Operating System Information Linux 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 #1 SMP Wed Apr 28 10:24:41 PDT 2004 on x86_64 Bob -- - -- [email protected] mailing list
