A good server motherboard.

[Tom Marchand]

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From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm at toybox.placo.com>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Christopher
> > Prance
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 8:02 AM
> > To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Subject: A good server motherboard.
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> >
> > If you were to build a server using FreeBSD 6.2 , basically for home use,
> > serving media files, small web server, basically a very small load, which
> > motherboard would you recommend?  Mid range as far as price is concerned.
> >
> 
> Recently my father's home system's disk died, he wanted a faster system
> so I convinced him to buy a new MB, ram, HD and CPU and let me install it
> in his case (he had recently replaced the power supply with an ATX II
> supply) and reload Win2K on it, rather than go out and buy a new system
> with Vista preloaded, and then have to deal with 3/4 of his software
> not working and having to be upgraded.
> 
> I deliberately selected the cheapest motherboard the local computer
> store had in stock - $89 it was.  AMD Seperon CPU.  Gig of ram, 80GB
> disk, etc.  Manucturer was FIC or Elitegroup, I can't recall which.
> 
> I was stunned and amazed at how advanced, how good, the board is.  Easy
> to setup, no problem loading software, didn't have to use special drivers,
> and stable as a rock.  And a host of features.
> 
> I took his old board, a 2 year old Elitegroup something or other, AMD Duron,
> and
> made a BSD server out of that.  Also, stable as a rock.
> 
> I have to conclude that these days even the cheapest motherboards are
> far better than the most expensive boards were 10 years ago.
> 
> Ted
> 
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I have to agree.  I recently bought an inexpensive 2U rack server which has a no-name motherboard and I have had no problems.  It's been running FreeBSD for a couple of months now with no problems.