Recent content by Zooter1940s

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction with the PCI-X. I found a couple boards that look suitable for my needs, most of them are tyan boards which I hear are pretty reliable. A little pricey, but they look worth it. Thanks for all the heads up.

I was thinking about that, if the school hasn't upgraded their ethernet lines. I saw some motherboards with dual channel ethernets and was wondering if that would help the 100Mbit bottleneck. Would that give me 2x the speed? or is it just for connecting to two different networks?

I'd like to get a cheap mobo, maybe around 50-60$, although I'm prepared to go up to 100.

This summer I'm going to build a server to host various multimedia files at my school. Last year I just hosted all of my files on my Windows XP machine and it didn't work out (ran out of RAM constantly, and that damned 10 user limit is annoying). So I'd like some advice on what motherboard(s) I...