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BTW I’m in Reliability and stability of the main
board is critical. Obviously price
is of concern. I have used some ECS all-in-one boards and have had a high
failure rate, so that’s out.
I have had some not so nice experiences with the SIS chipsets – so
are the NVIDIA chipsets better for Fedora? Or is a different chipset the way to
go? I think manufactures should
release some MTBF rates for the motherboards. Also I have come across the NVIDIA SLI
certification. It sounds close to
what I want when I purchase a bunch of motherboards. Rick From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Rick Meyer I
am looking for some recommendations for a stable and reliable motherboard for
building five Fedora Core 3 systems.
My top concerns are: Motherboard: o Reliability
of the main motherboard. o Chipset
Support (i.e Easy Installation) from the kernel. o Price
is some what important but not the deciding factor (no more than $140.00) o Nice
to have features would be dual-lan on board. o I
have no CPU preference, so it could be AMD or Intel solution. (CPU Speed is not important) o Chipset/Performance
vs Price. (I would prefer a newer
chipset if it doesn’t break the $140.00 mark) Network
Cards: o If
the motherboard doesn’t have on-board Lan (I need two Ethernet
connections in each system) Then what is a good and stable NIC card? A
typical system once built will contain: o 200GB
Hard Drive o DVD
R/W o 512
Megs of RAM o 2
Ethernet Connections (Giga-Lan Optional) o ATX
Case (Mini or Mid Tower) o Good
Power Supply (Probably an Enermax..) Of
course I have searched the NET for MFTB numbers from Manufactures, but
haven’t really come up with anything solid yet. Some of the Manufacturers I have looked
at include ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, and DFI.
I’m open to others as well. Thanks Rick
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