What do you think about this motherboard?

[smj at littleprojects.org (Shawn M. Jones)]

Feizhou wrote:

> Shawn M. Jones wrote: 
>
>>>
>> All I can do is reiterate my experience with a 3ware 9500 and a 
>> motherboard with a VIA chipset.  The two don't play well together.  I 
>> switched to a Supermicro with an entirely Intel chipset (earlier 
>> rendition of the one it looks like you're looking at), and have had 
>> no downtime since.
>
>
> Shawn,
>
> Can you please tell us which VIA chipset? I know some from the Apollo 
> line were horrendous since they had PCI latency issues.

Feizhou,

Sorry it took me so long to get back to you guys.  I've been at a 
mind-numbing government conference all week.  I also had to unearth the 
old hardware to find the chipset.

The southbridge chipset on the motherboard is VT8233A.  I believe the 
northbridge is the KT266A chipset, but can't tell because it's covered 
by a heatsink and fan.  The motherboard is an A-Bit KR7A-133 (no RAID).

Hope this helps,

Shawn M. Jones