 | View Full Version : why server motherboard ? jakis 01-26-2002, 04:57 AM The price of server motherboards like tyan are 10 times higher than Desktop motherboards. Is there the big dirrerence in performance between these two ? Can a good-reviewed $60-100 Desktop motherboard work as a webserver ? Thank you for any comments RutRow 01-26-2002, 08:57 AM A desktop board will work fine for low load/traffic situations, but a server board would be a better idea for high traffic, reliability, memory management, and I/O. Walter 01-26-2002, 01:16 PM "server board": + high performance chip set + more memory usable + some with 64-bit PCI bus instead of 32-bit + some with dual CPU + some with SCSI or RAID on board - sometimes not so many driver updates jakis 01-26-2002, 01:49 PM would desktop motherboard not last long when doing 24 hours operation like serving webpages ? mkaufman 01-26-2002, 02:10 PM Originally posted by jakis would desktop motherboard not last long when doing 24 hours operation like serving webpages ? It would probably be fine.. serve-you 01-27-2002, 01:03 AM I have several personal servers that run on various old desktop motherboards. Some of them are as old as 3 or 4 years, they all run just fine. -Dan |