> It seems mobos have a lot of electrolytic capacitor problems. Fans are > very unreliable. Minimal fan requirements are a plus.
I think there's been one year with really bad electrolytic capacitor production. Complete series of mobos died after a few months. I had one such board, and the vendor (Via) replaced it without discussion due to these known issues. But other than that I haven't had a single board die before I replaced it. I've been using a Via C3/500 (only 2 years so far) and a Soltek barebone (don't even know the mobo :-)) for 3-4 years. And at one of my previous jobs we were using any kind of Asus or MSI boards for the servers. Whatever was cheapest that day. I didn't see one single board die in 4 years. But I've seen a lot of disks, RAM modules and fans. And these fans are crucial for the board's live. I'd say don't go high-end. Don't overclock. Or take server boards (which cost a good amount of money). _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
