Drew Weaver wrote:
We have roughly 1200 Intel motherboards in production at the
moment.. From the server line SE7500/SE7501/S2000/S3000, the desktop
line, 845GLC, 945GTP, various 865 and 915 boards, and I believe we have
had one single failure out of all of them including DOA, run failures,
etc.
YMMV but we used to use asus/tyan boards and we had a much higher
failure/DOA rate.
Thanks,
-Drew
-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Aleksandar Milivojevic
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 10:21 AM
To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: CentOS 4 and Intel D965 motherboards
Quoting John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
If it's not too late, return the motherboard, get something else.
My personal experience with Intel's desktop motherboards is that they
work most of the time for most of the people.
thats been the exact opposite of my experiences with Intel branded
motherboards. They've been consistently well engineered, and well
built, have very good aftermarket support (BIOS upgrades and drivers
are still available for nearly every board they've ever made, and they
are MUCH better documented than the typical taiwan stuff).
Have you ever had to actually deal with Intel support. Like, you have
an issue, they resolve it? I had to call them couple of times. They
did little or nothing. The answer was always "it is not our problem
that motherboard we made doesn't work". Well engineered? Motherboard
that doesn't want to power on because you plugged a PCI card into it can
hardly be called well engineered. Thermal specs available on the web?
More or less useless to end users.
As I said. They work most of the time. When they do work, they work
great. When they don't work, good luck in getting any kind of support
from Intel. Been there, done that. Ended up dissapointed big time.
I can't say that I've been through as many boards as Drew, but his
experience is similar to mine. I've had very few outright failures of
Intel boards. My only real complaint with Intel boards has been the
somewhat spartan feature set, but for servers that is usually not a
problem. I've had a few bugs over the years (most of them on the i820
and old i810/815 boards), but nothing that's bitten me hard in recent
memory. I've had a number of desktop machines with Abit and MSI boards
that suffered from outright failures or just horrid instability issues.
For "off brand" boards, I'm trying to stick with Tyan (bugs here too,
but no show stoppers yet) and Supermicro (no problems to report there).
Cheers,
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