From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Mar 23 20:36:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com (cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com [24.13.23.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8857637B719 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 20:36:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) Received: from localhost (bri@localhost) by cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2O4ZD209261; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 20:35:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 20:35:12 -0800 (PST) From: Brian X-X-Sender: To: Dennis Cc: Robert Hough , Subject: Re: Good server motherboard? In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20010323123209.02384e40@mail.etinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Power supplies less than 200 watts? You recycling 386 cases? I don't believe I've seen less than 250 in awhile. Brian On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Dennis wrote: > 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