Bowie -
Let me apologize for not putting some specs out there right up front; it
is like saying I want a vehicle without stating that I haul tools and
sometimes a few bags of cement!
This is for a "light weight server" that is connected to DSL and just
affords my clients the advantage of downloading daily applications I
maintain via FTP. Also, my "photo clients" view my "digital proof
sheets"...very light weight stuff.
I need to replace my current board since it has "fake RAID" (Abit
BE7-RAID) and Centos will not install. The disks are IDE. Once it is
up, I just let it run and run...nothing special.
Todd
Bowie Bailey wrote:
> From: Todd Cary [mailto:todd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>
>> OK...now I go to the Intel section, and I am presented with these:
>>
>> http://www.mwave.com/mwave/ViewProducts.hmx?PID=MOTHERBOARDBUN
>> DLES-INTEL&updepts=BUNDLE2&DNAME=Motherboard+Bundles%2D+By+MB
>>
>> Are there some salient factors I should be looking at?
>>
>
> That all depends... What are you looking FOR?
>
> Why are you replacing the motherboard? Are you also replacing the
> CPU? Memory?
>
> Do you need IDE? SATA? RAID?
>
> Do you have a video card, sound card, and NIC or do you want them built-in?
>
> Do you want PCI-e?
>
> Do you need USB? Firewire?
>
> CentOS should be compatible with most motherboards out there. You may
> have to find drivers for an oddball video or sound chipset. On-board
> raid you are probably better off ignoring and using software raid
> instead. I usually look for boards from Asus or Abit. Intel boards
> are good as well, but usually don't have as many features and don't
> perform as well on the benchmarks.
>
> You may want to check out Newegg.com. They've got good prices and
> selection and quite a few customer reviews on the popular products.
>
> Bowie
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