From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Mar 23 9:24:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from et-gw.etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3AA837B719 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 09:24:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from dbsys.etinc.com (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by et-gw.etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA04604; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:25:23 GMT (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20010323123209.02384e40@mail.etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@mail.etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:42:18 -0500 To: Robert Hough , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: Dennis Subject: Re: Good server motherboard? In-Reply-To: <20010323120241.E11151@solveinteractive.com> References: <000001c0b3a1$4a8c7740$0464a8c0@pnt004> <000001c0b3a1$4a8c7740$0464a8c0@pnt004> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message