Looking for motherboard recommendations

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Wed Jun 11 18:06:14 UTC 2008


Roberto Malinverni wrote:
>> -----Messaggio originale-----
>> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:14:20 -0400
>> From: Michael W Cocke <cocke at catherders.com>
>> Subject: Looking for motherboard recommendations
>>
>> I'm finally ready to move to current technology.  Looking for a
>> recommendation for a motherboard/CPU that Fedora 8 won't have a
>> problem with.  As many slots as I can have, ditto SATA ports and USB
>> ports.  Other than that, I'm open to suggestions.  The system will be
>> configured for 2 Gb of ram and 4 TB of disks, no graphics requirements
>> beyond the minimum necessary to install Fedora.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
> 
> I'm a little biased toward ASUS models - they never failed on me in 8 years
> with Linux :)
> The one on my main machine supports up to 6 ATA drives and up to 8 SATA
> drives, has 8 usb port and both fw400 and fw800 ports.
> Not to mention that you can update the firmware without using Windows.
> Maybe you will find interesting a feature such Splashtop: it's now on the
> top-line models and it is to be included in the next-gen MBs from ASUS.
> 
> Roberto
> 
> 

I am in agreement with you.

What board?

I got a ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe ATX AM2 Nforce 570 SLI 2PCI-E16 2PCI-E1 3PCI 
SATA2 Sound GBLAN 1394 Motherboard with 8Gig of ram a few months ago. 
Only issue I had was the BIOS not working with my ram and freezing up 
when I went over 4 Gig.  Installed the latest BIOS and now I only have 
to reboot if there is a new kernel.  :)


NVIDIA nForce® 570 SLI™ MCP supports:
  - 1 x Ultra DMA 133 / 100 / 66 / 33
  - 6 x Serial ATA 3.0Gb/s
  - NVIDIA MediaShield™ RAID supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5 and JBOD span 
cross Serial ATA drives
JMicron JMB363 SATA controller supports:
  - 1 x Internal Serial ATA 3.0Gb/s
  - 1 x External Serial ATA 3.0Gb/s port on back I/O (SATA On-the-Go)
  - Support RAID 0, 1, and JBOD


Splashtop, though interesting is something that I wouldn't look for in a 
server.

-- 
Robin Laing




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