[SunRescue] OT: dual PPro mb's...

[Ken Hansen]

Intel server boards are great, and you can usually find last years favorite motherboard at steep discounts at places like onsale.com (I think "egghead.com" would still get them), and centrix-intl.com.

They still have that great case with the SCA hot-swap cage for $379... But for my personal screamer x86 box (1 GHz PIII) I went with a plain old Enlight case w/300 watt PS, about $70 shipped. But, I did get one of those cool dual-head video cards (Matrox G450) 2x 16 Meg cards in one AGP slot, about $80. This is gonna be my project after this weekend...

Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: woods at weird.com [mailto:woods at weird.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 5:48 PM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] OT: dual PPro mb's...
> 
> 
> [ On Friday, March 30, 2001 at 10:30:19 (-0500), Kurt 
> Mosiejczuk wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: [SunRescue] OT: dual PPro mb's...
> >
> > On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > 
> > > I've heard rumours too, but the same go for almost any 
> clone board.
> > >
> > > For example modern ASUS boards are trash.
> > 
> > Really?  I know the P2B models were rock solid, and I bought
> > my mother a K7V.  I was very impressed with it and we haven't
> > had problems....
> 
> Yup, really.  At least the batches that have been shipping to Canada.
> All my colleagues are starting to say the same thing....
> 
> > They even included the header for the extra USB ports.  So many
> > manufacturers put the pins on the board but you'd never be able
> > to find the part that hooks to it =)
> 
> If you're building a real server then get a real server board, such as
> one of the Intel server boards.  Complete documentation, including
> interrupt routing, etc. is all freely available.  Not only 
> that but they
> have serial console support in the BIOS!  ;-)
> 
> Of course then there's IBM.  My PC-325 server has a full PCI-EIDE
> controller on the motherboard, but only for the floppy.  There are no
> headers for the IDE channels!  Imagine my surprise after telling a
> client to install an IDE drive in one of his machines and he asked me
> where it should connect....  :-)  I knew the controller was in there
> because the driver probed it just fine and reported dual channels!
> 
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