Re: Best Motherboard

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Sam Drinkard wrote:


Ryan Nichols wrote:
To all..
I was using a Gigabyte motherboard, and the board seems like a bad choice. What do you guys recommend for a decent server board that would use a Dual Core processor and DDR2 ram. I dont want to replace the CPU and Mem i already have, just find a decent board that supportsthe existing.. Thanks,
Ryan Nichols

Ryan,

About 2 years ago, I build a server using a SuperMicro X6DA8-2 motherboard and it is a dual xeon processor machine with capabilities of 16G of DDR2 memory. It has dual gigabit ethernet ports, 6 usb 2.0 ports and a dual SATA controller as well as regular IDE bussmaster capabilities. I've been very happy with it, and at the time, it was not that expensive a board with the 2 cpu's on it. A couple months ago, I recased the thing back into a SuperMicro case that was optimized for that board and I wish now I'd done it when I first built it. One problem I had with it was the cpu cooler fans. The original ones were made by Intel, and they were noisy, terribly out of balance and downright bad. I replaced them with 4-pin PWM fans from SuperMicro and that machine is so quiet now, I have to feel of it to make sure it's running. The thing runs about 90 degrees operating and with the fans set up on the super quiet mode, it never even breaks a sweat. There is another version of the board that has a SCSI controller on board, but only one gigabit ethernet port. Everything else is pretty much the same. I highly recommend SuperMIcro boards and cases. Probably a bit more expensive than some of the others, but in a server, I want quality, so I pay for what I get.

HTH

Sam


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