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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?
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> 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.
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> I completely and totally believe the exact opposite.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Dennis
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> .
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