From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Mar 23 16: 4:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from marble.fbcc.com (ns2.fbcc.com [216.54.252.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DC22B37B71A for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:04:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@jimking.net) Received: (qmail 3908 invoked from network); 24 Mar 2001 00:13:17 -0000 Received: from 216-52-255-8.fbcc.com (HELO bluto.jimking.net) (216.54.255.8) by ns2.fbcc.com with SMTP; 24 Mar 2001 00:13:17 -0000 Received: from marble (marble.lgc.com [134.132.228.4]) by bluto.jimking.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f2O049j87389; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 18:04:10 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jim@jimking.net) Message-ID: <001501c0b3f5$f40b8910$04e48486@marble> From: "Jim King" To: "Ed Henderson" , Cc: "'Bob Martin'" References: <001c01c0b3ea$df109920$0464a8c0@pnt004> Subject: Re: Good server motherboard? Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 18:04:09 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Ed Henderson" wrote: >I plan to use AMD Athlon chips, tower case, IDE drives/peripherals, >at least 256MB RAM. Budget is limited since we are just beginning: >approx. $1300 per server (not including tape drive which is seperate >see #3 below). Servers will host typical ISP apps: DNS, RADIUS, >mail, Apache, etc. When I looked a couple months ago none of the Athlon motherboards supported ECC memory. Considering the amount of potential grief you'll avoid by using ECC memory I'd say that Athlon shouldn't be considered. :-( Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message