Most reliable mobo for web server...?

[dejansen]

I'm throwing together a web server for the office and am accepting suggestions as to what the most RELIABLE motherboard would be. I plan on using a TB or XP CPU and SDRAM. I will need RAID 0/1. I'm leaning towards an A7V but am very open to suggestions. Thank you in advance.

david

 

[subhuman]

I would either go with an Intel motherboard with Intel chipset, or if you want Athlons, a PURE AMD chipset - like AMD760MP. I would absolutely not use any other chipsets in a mission critical situation and I personally would go with 100% Intel for that application. Just my experiences and opinions. I'm sure there will be others.

 

[Swanny]

I'd probably go for either an AMD 760 based board or a Via KT266a based board. I'd say the 760 is the most stable.

Of course, you can never beat the Intel 440BX or the Via KT133a. Both are extremely stable. I believe the A7V133 (the board after the A7V) is based on the KT133a.

 

[AA0]

Do not get the A7V, its stable pretty stable, but there are much better out there. SDRAM is not the way to go also, especially with an XP CPU, you are setting up a major major bottleneck.
For stability, 760 is the best, imo, the FIC AD11, but it won't take a XP, or at least the first generation won't, maybe another revision will. Most 760 boards are very very stable, epox for sure, I'd stay away from the Asus board, as it was realeased far ahead of most other boards. Abit has a good 760 board too.

KT266A is extremely stable, or most boards are too. I love my KT266A board, I'd use it as a server if I wanted to.

 

[dejansen]

Thank you for the responses but there's gotta be more people out there with experience building servers... Maybe I got the wrong forum. And DDR is going to lead to huge performance gains over SDRAM on a little web server? Hmmm, I don't know about that one...

 

[AA0]

The 760 chipset is the best to get, it uses DDR. There is one plus.

An Athlon XP was meant to run DDR, if you don't have it, you are going to notice the difference.
Having massive memory bottlenecks in servers is something you want to avoid at all costs, there is a reason most servers have 1 gig + RAM in them.
I don't think you understand enough about building computers to get the importance of DDR in this set up. Bottlenecks of any kind are not wanted, they lead to unstable systems.

 

[dejansen]

AAO, if DDR is so crucial to a server, why is Dell still using SDRAM in business servers for "Enterprise-wide, mission-critical e-commerce, database and data warehousing workloads"?

Sure, it's a plus. But how many servers are currently running just fine without it?

Thank you all for your input.

 

[Jerboy]

<< The 760 chipset is the best to get, it uses DDR. There is one plus.

An Athlon XP was meant to run DDR, if you don't have it, you are going to notice the difference.
Having massive memory bottlenecks in servers is something you want to avoid at all costs, there is a reason most servers have 1 gig + RAM in them.
I don't think you understand enough about building computers to get the importance of DDR in this set up. Bottlenecks of any kind are not wanted, they lead to unstable systems. >>



INTEL PENTIUM 4 PROCESSOR

server board with Intel chipset

ECC RDRAM

RAID 5

SCSI hard drives

basic videocard



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[DaiShan]

to be fair, you did ask for the MOST stable system, faster RAM (read ddr for an amd rig) will increase stability, especially if you get high quality ram like cruicial, also you have not really told us how much this server is expected to do, if it is only going to receive a few hits, then sdram, and single processor would be fine, a huge server... that opens up a lot of new problems.

 

[ScottMac]

If you end up looking at an Intel platform, check out the SuperMicro motherboards. I have three of them (2 dual PIII/1G, 1 dual P4 Xeon 2G) and they are the most stable systems I've ever run (say, in the last ten or twelve years).

There's a pretty good argument for using Intel boards with Intel procesors, and AMD chipset motherboards with AMD processors...in either case, staying with a good basic board is likely to give you the strongest system. I only suggest the SM boards, because i've had extremely good luck with them.

Good Luck

Scott

 

[Ben]

AMD - Tyan or ASUS with AMD chipset

Intel - Intel or Supermicro with Intel chipset

 

[freebsddude]

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