Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:31:28 -0500 From: "Ed Henderson" <Ed.Henderson@Certainty.net> To: "'Dennis'" <dennis@etinc.com>, "'Robert Hough'" <rch@solveinteractive.com>, <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Good server motherboard? Message-ID: <000f01c0b3bf$18148fa0$0464a8c0@pnt004> In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20010323123209.02384e40@mail.etinc.com>
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Dennis, Am I to assume your are recommending Intel MBs? 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 > > . > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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