Looking for serverworks board - dual P3, SCSI, LAN, IDE

[brianboru]

Was hoping someone out there would have some advice as to what specific serverworks based motherboard might fit my needs. I'm building a server and have heard good things about the serverworks chipset versus some of the others out there. I don't mind paying a bit extra if it adds a good level of stability to this box.

Here's what I need:
-Stable (don't need ultra stable motherboard, just something more stable than the cheaper ones)
-Dual P3 (probably 1ghz) - no overclocking
-Relatively cheap memory slots (registered pc133 is ok as crucial seems to be fairly cheap)
-Ability to control 2-4 SCSI boot and system HDs (prefer onboard)
-Ability to control 4+ IDE storage HDs - prefer ATA66/100 onboard but if there are no known conflicts with a promise card, I'm open to that solution (can you load 2 promise cards to control up to 8 devices?)
-LAN (prefer onboard)

Here's additional things I would like to have:
AGP slot (not necessary - see below)
Free PCI slot(s) (no ISA needed)
onboard decent sound for audio-mp3 streaming
IDE raid (same deal as above - onboard would be nice, card otherwise)

This will probably run with dual 1ghz p3s, a gig or so of ram, at least 2 scsi3 36gb drives to boot and run apps from, and then a bunch of ide drives for mass storage. At least 2 80s and 2 60s, probably more if possible. I'd like to run a nice graphics card, but it will not be a gaming machine. I'm thinking a Matrox G400 or G450, and I believe matrox makes a pci version if I need to go that route. Also, an ide cdrom and scsi burner.

I know tyan and supermicro make serverworks boards, and I've heard they use them a lot in Dell servers - would love any other information even if not a specific recommendation. Realize that this may be too much information *grin* but I didn't want people complaining that I didn't make myself clear as to what I was looking for!

Thanks

 

[jamesbond007]

This should suit you quite nicely. No AGP, but it's an Asus.

 

[brianboru]

Looks pretty good... do you actually have this board?

I'm kinda curious what this means:

Q6 : What is the on-board SCSI controller used on CUR-DLS?
A : The on-board SCSI controller used on CUR-DLS is LSI's SCSI chipset. There are three different SCSI chipset, SYM53C896 (Ultra2), SYM53C1010-33 and SYM1010-66 (Ultra160).

The spec page lists this however:
Onboard SCSI - Dual channel Ultra2 SCSI (LSI® SYM 53C896 with 33MHz)

The drives I have are Ultra3 (Ultra 160) drives, and I'd like a 160 to control them. Is this motherboard available with the SYM1010-66? I'm confused...

(Thanks for the link either way)

 

[jamesbond007]

Nope, don't own it, but wouldn't mind if I did. Can't help you on the SCSI part, not extremely familiar with all of that. I know you can put a 160 controller in there because of the 64-bit PCI slots.

Just check with whomever you buy it from, they should be able to tell you more on the SCSI part....

 

[ilkhan_v4]

Take a look at the Tyan 2567 and the Supermicro 370DE6. They both have what you're looking for and for somewhat reasonable prices now. The new WS chipset will be out soon, which includes AGP 4x and UDMA-100 support (current SW chipsets can only do PIO Mode 4). Stay away from the Tyan Thunder 2500, though, unless you really know what you're doing.