From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Sep 13 19:15:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.avatar.com (ns1.avatar.com [199.33.206.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2838437B406 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 19:15:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomcat (tomcat.avatar.com [199.33.206.20]) by ns1.avatar.com (8.12.0.Beta8/8.12.0.Beta8) with SMTP id f8E2FDUM019279 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 19:15:13 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kory Hamzeh" To: Subject: MSI 850 Pro2 (MS-6523) Motherboard Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 19:15:15 -0700 Message-ID: <000901c13cc3$17670000$14ce21c7@avatar.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm putting together a somewhat high end e-commerce server running RELEASE-4.3, apache+mod_ssl, and Miva Empressa & Merchant 4.0. The motherboard I plan to use is a MSI 850 Pro2 (MS-6523). It uses the Intel 850 and the ICH2 chipsets. The CPU will be a P4 @ 1.4Ghz with 512K RAM. Are there any know problems with this MB or chipset? I'm wondering for e-commerce application where there will be short burst of disk I/O, if I need to go with U160 SCSI or if UDMA100 EIDE will be sufficient. I was planning to go with two Maxtor ATA-100 7200 RPM 40 gig drives. Any feedback on putting together a fast system would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Kory To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message