Reliable Athlon 64 motherboards

[Jeremy Sanders]

Hi - We're looking for a reliable Athlon 64 motherboard. Hopefully this will 
support 4600+ (dual core) processors, SATA, and hopefully gigabit networking. 
Reliability is the key. Is there such a thing?

We've tried using an MSI K8NGM2-FID, based on the nforce chipset. This works 
fine and the gigabit forcedeth appears reliable with the latest kernel update. 
However it oopses every few days for no apparent reason.

We've also tried an Asus A8V-E SE (VIA chipset), but this appears 
terrible. The sky2 driver works (with the latest kernel update for 4.2, or 
the latest RHEL jwl test kernels), but then hangs after an hour or two of 
transferring data. We then tried a tg3 network card and an e1000, and this 
corrupts the data transferred between it and another computer. Maybe it is 
the SATA corrupting the data, but who knows. No obvious errors in the logs 
except for lost ticks. Tried non-SMP, 32 bit, noapic, acpi=off. No luck.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a reliable board? Otherwise we have to 
buy Intel and get the speed loss...

Many thanks

Jeremy

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