RE: motherboard recommendations

I am a big fan of giga-byte server boards. Our company uses them in our
voip/web/mail and win2k/win2k3 servers.

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From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org] On Behalf Of
Thomison, Lee
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 11:07 AM
To: aklug@aklug.org
Subject: RE: motherboard recommendations

Last November/December I went through the 'search'. Here's my thinking:

I've had nothing but bad luck with Abit and Epox boards. I quit using
them years ago and touch them only to replace them.

I've had good luck and been impressed with Asus boards.

For AMD64s looks like the Nforce4 is the chipset of choice. Be aware
that it has issues with certain Maxtor drives.

PCI-X is the way to go, but be aware it's a whole different ball of wax
than PCI. Get at least two of the PCI-e-16 wide, and as many of the
regular PCI as you can get. I've got two, and it'd be nice to have
three. Of course if I had three I'd want four. 8)

At that time SLI was a not-quite-ready-for-prime-time thing and there
was no clear advantage for the extra money so I didn't bother. Don't
know about today.

For me, last December, the choices came down to a DFI Lanparty UT4
Deluxe. and an MSI board K8N Neo4 (People with the Asus's were
reporting problems at the time. Don't know about now.).

I got the DFI Lanparty, and overall I'm a bit discontent. On the one
hand, it's very apparent a lot of thought has gone into usability and
lots of nice little enhancements for techs and modders and overclockers.
On the other hand, a few of those enhancements can screw with your head
until you get used to it. It also has problems with my Seasonics 12
power supply which both DFI and Seasonics say is a problem with the
Seasonics power supply. On the other hand, I've gone through three of
the Seasonics (all RMA'ed). =20

If I had it to do over again, I'd probably give the MSI a try, unless
Asus has gotten their issues straightened out.

Of course its nvidia for a video card. I got the XFX6800 since it had
two DVI outputs on it.

Hope this helps

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Received on Wed Apr 26 14:07:14 2006