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Need suggestions for a server board

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NightFalcon

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I'm building a server for myself and could use some feedback on the choice of motherboard. First of all this has to be Dual-Xeon board and must support PCI-X preferably with at least one 133 MHz. I've been really wanting to get an 800FSB system because for the price of 2.4 GHz 533 Xeon I can get a 2.8 GHz 800 Xeon, well for about $20 more. The problem is that I can't find any boards with that FSB and still have them match my other specs.

Can anyone recommend a board for around $200-$350 that is 800FSB, has PCI-X slot 64-bit/133MHz, has built-in video, and built-in gigabit network? Don't need anything fancy like SCSI or RAID, I need that PCI-X slot to put in a raid controller, so don't need another one on the board. Oh, and I won't ever have more then 2GB of ram, so don't need one of those boards with support for 32GB, 4GB limit will do just fine.
 
Good luck with that 🙂 The only boards I've seen that meet all your requirements also have the 8 ram slots and RAID and are $400+. Bump for your search ^
 
All right so let me ask you this then. How big of a difference is there between 533FSB and 800FSB? Also between 512 L2 and 1MB L2 on the CPU itself? I can find the boards that meet my requirements without problems, but they are all 533FSB.
 
Some boards will let you overclock the Xeons. ie you can get a 2.4(533) and oc'd to 3.2(800)..

The Asus PC-DL & the Asus NCCD-DL will let you do that, but only have a 64/66mhz pci-x slot..

Regards,
Jose
 
... which hangs off the south bridge. TOTAL throughput on the southbridge uplink is 250 MB/s. Seeing how it has PCI-X, PCI, SATA, IDE, USB 2.0 and sound to manage, go figure how much "server" performance you'll get from this half-arsed solution.

Make your mind up - do you want a solid performer with real good I/O performance, or a looks-as-if toy?
 
Originally posted by: Peter
... which hangs off the south bridge. TOTAL throughput on the southbridge uplink is 250 MB/s. Seeing how it has PCI-X, PCI, SATA, IDE, USB 2.0 and sound to manage, go figure how much "server" performance you'll get from this half-arsed solution.

Make your mind up - do you want a solid performer with real good I/O performance, or a looks-as-if toy?
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Are you referring to the two boards above or to something else?

How about this board: NCLV-D?
Can't find any info on it at all and it's not even found on pricewatch, but using dealtime I managed to locate it here: http://www.digitallyunique.com/nclv-dide.html

$258 seems like a very good price and it has both 800FSB and 64bit/133MHz PCI-X. Can you tell from reading that if there's a downside to it?
 
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