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Re: [Sheflug] Sheflug - Seems to Okay Now
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From: "Morris, David (Allvac, UK)" <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <sheflug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Sheflug - Seems to Okay Now
>
> Slightly off topic, but out of curiosity David, which boards
> are you using
> now ?
My Windows box is an Asus P4C800 with a 3.0GHz 800FSB P4. It was a
recommended board to support the Matrox video processing card I have in
there - it didn't cut it with nVidia chipsets, and when you've got a £400
copro board, it's worth making sure you've' got the right mobo to support
it!
The Linux box has a Gigabyte GA-8i848PG board with (I think) a 3.2GHz
Prescott CPU. This box works 24/7 and is absolutely rock solid. It is
however at its limit on RAM - I seem to think it's got the full complement
of 2Gb on it which will probably limit its life more than anything else.
It's running SuSE10.0. It gets all sorts thrown at it. It's my external web
server and hosts both mine and my wife's blogs (www.brassedoff.net/wp and
www.woolforbrains.net), is our mail server, is used for Java development,
media server (it's got a Hauppauge Nova-T DVB card in - I recorded Torchwood
last night which I'll stream to XBMC on my old Xbox)... It's a real
workhorse and I can't think (touch wood) that it's ever crashed on me.
Current uptime is 119 days. Not ages I know, but there are places in the
middle of the Serengeti that have better power supply than Killamarsh
sometimes.
Thanks David.
My experience with Gigabyte hasn't been so good in the past unfortunately. I
remember having constant hardware and stability issues and stopped using
Gigabyte gear some time ago. Asus is kit I have used in the past, and it
always worked well for me. If I had to use it again, I wouldn't mind. I'm
currently running on a Supermicro board, which is mega stable as Supermicro
usually is, but am looking at either an Intel BadAxe or BadAxe2 for my new
build, or failing that, one of the Asus workstation boards (currently the
only Conroe board I have seen with PCI-X slots running at full speed). I
also noticed the price of the X6800 Conroes steadily coming down in price
too, which is good to know :)
Steve.
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