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> > so what are your recommendations ? For comparable prices, of course.
> 
> I recommend ASUS motherboards.  I don't know if the prices are comparable
> or not, since I never priced the non-working motherboards.  For what
> it's worth, I think "doesn't work" is the highest price you can pay,
> no matter what the actual cost.

when it does the job, it does work. We buy sistems for a student lab,
and these usually have a single ethernet card. Only in special cases we
need more ethernets on the same motherboard.

Not to mention the trouble to get something that local distributor
don't carry [it took three months to get a Meteor], and the possible
troubles in having things repaired when they come in broken (it
happens at time).

	Luigi
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Luigi Rizzo                     Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
email: luigi@iet.unipi.it       Universita' di Pisa
tel: +39-50-568533              via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy)
fax: +39-50-568522              http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/
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