Hi,

What P3 CPU motherboard would you recommend for building a 1U or 2U web server for co-lo?

What do you especially like about the board...and what "remote management" features do you look for in a motherboard for your co-lo boxes?

If you were going SCSI, would you prefer a board with on-board SCSI...or one without it and use a low profile SCSI PCI card?

Thanks!

Louis

You may want to go with a tyan board. That is what I use for all my pentium servers. There great. Also, as for the scsi controller, it depends. If you go with a quality board, such as asus or tyan, then you deffianently won't need an offboard controller. The ones on those boards work great. Tyan is a real quality board, which just doesn't seem to die. I really recommend you check into them more. I'm sure if you did a search, you could find more indepth reviews of them.

-jason

Hi JasonX,

*Which* Tyan board(S) are you referring to?

How much uptime do you have running with those boards?


Thanks,

Louis

I would recommend the Tyan Thunder HEsl-T (S2688), details of wich can be found athttp://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderhet.html

However if you are worried about price, then the next best alterntive (IMHO) would be an Asus board.

Never had any problems with Tyan or Asus before.

:)

Tyan or Supermicro. We run both boards and havent had any problems to date with them.

stlouis, We run Tyan Thunder hesl-t, we have had 100% uptime for the last 98 days. :) Before that, it was a reboot on a couple machines for upgrades, and normal things like that.

Thanks, JasonX.

Take care,

Louis

Thanks, JasonX.

I'll take a look at that board. At this point, I'm not sure which Supermicro, Tyan or Intel board to get. I suspect it will be hard to go too far wrong in any event. But as a techie, I sometimes fret over the minor differences more than I should.

The biggest thing I'm wondering about is whether to go with onboard SCSI or some other specific SCSI add in card.


Thanks again and take care,

Louis