What do you think about this motherboard?

[feizhou at graffiti.net (Feizhou)]

Shawn M. Jones wrote:
> Juan Carlos wrote:
> 
>> I should have mention that at work we are only allowed to use RHEL3
>> and Centos3 for now due to our scripts and third party software we
>> need. But back to being on topic regarding that motherboard.....I am
>> really interested to see if people are already using that board in
>> servers. What limitations have you seen? Performance is important to
>> me but stability is the most important.

Juan,

You can look at 3ware's list of compatible motherboards.

>>  
>>
> 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.

Thanks.