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To: "Ed Henderson" <Ed.Henderson@Certainty.net>
From: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
Subject: RE: Good server motherboard?
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At 12:31 PM 03/23/2001, you wrote:
>Dennis,
>Am I to assume your are recommending Intel MBs?


I think that my "point" was that you cant recommend a manufacturer, and 
that looking for a "recommendation" is not necessarily going to save you 
any headaches.  Just because MB A works for Mr B doesnt mean that you wont 
have problems unless you mirror his setup and conditions.

Some MBs crap out under extreme conditions. Some of fickle about power.

Intel MBs have problems with stray interrupts (or so say the people in 
power at freebsd), and they dont take AMD processors so you may not like them.

You have to do  your homework and buy from someone who will take it back if 
you  have problems. There is no "certainty" with MBS.

Dennis


>Ed.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Dennis
> > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 12:42 PM
> > To: Robert Hough; freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject: Re: Good server motherboard?
> >
> >
> > At 12:02 PM 03/23/2001, Robert Hough wrote:
> > >On Fri, Mar 23, 2001, Ed Henderson wrote:
> > >
> > > > 1. Does anyone have any suggestions for a good MB to use?
> > >
> > >I like the Tyan boards for reliability. They are strong
> > performers too,
> > >but other boards are known to be faster. I've got several
> > Tyan Tomcats
> > >that have been running for close 3-4 years non-stop, without
> > any problems.
> >
> >
> > I completely and totally believe the exact opposite.
> >
> > Several Tyan MBs, for example, spontaneously reboot regularly
> > with power
> > supplies of less then 200 watts. They are so poorly
> > engineered that Tyan
> > doesn't know why, and they dont have electrical specs on the
> > MBs.  Intel's
> > comparable all-in-one, for example, is spec'd to require a minimum of
> > 146watts and works nicely with a 150watt supply.
> >
> > My conversations with tyan indicate that they dont engineer
> > their boards
> > very well, nor do they test them in a wide range of
> > environments. Luckily,
> > they did take back a boatload of MBs even though we had no
> > boxes, so at
> > least they recognize their problems.
> >
> > Dennis
> >
> > .
> >
> >
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