From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Mar 23 9:38: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from ftp.nvg.com (ftp.nvg.com [199.179.254.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 860E437B71A for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 09:38:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Ed.Henderson@Certainty.net) Received: from pnt004 (vsat-148-63-55-208.c1.sb4.mcl.starband.net [148.63.55.208]) by ftp.nvg.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA14004; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:31:38 -0500 (EST) From: "Ed Henderson" To: "'Dennis'" , "'Robert Hough'" , Subject: RE: Good server motherboard? Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:31:28 -0500 Message-ID: <000f01c0b3bf$18148fa0$0464a8c0@pnt004> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20010323123209.02384e40@mail.etinc.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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? >=20 >=20 > 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=20 > performers too, > >but other boards are known to be faster. I've got several=20 > Tyan Tomcats > >that have been running for close 3-4 years non-stop, without=20 > any problems. >=20 >=20 > I completely and totally believe the exact opposite. >=20 > Several Tyan MBs, for example, spontaneously reboot regularly=20 > with power=20 > supplies of less then 200 watts. They are so poorly=20 > engineered that Tyan=20 > doesn't know why, and they dont have electrical specs on the=20 > MBs. Intel's=20 > comparable all-in-one, for example, is spec'd to require a minimum of=20 > 146watts and works nicely with a 150watt supply. >=20 > My conversations with tyan indicate that they dont engineer=20 > their boards=20 > very well, nor do they test them in a wide range of=20 > environments. Luckily,=20 > they did take back a boatload of MBs even though we had no=20 > boxes, so at=20 > least they recognize their problems. >=20 > Dennis >=20 > . >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message