New Machine

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 16 Jun 2005, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Kurt Wall wrote:
> > Hello, list,
> >
> > Never having built a machine from scratch, I'd appreciate if
> > a wiser or more experienced head than mine confirmed for me
> > that the following components will play nicely together:
> >
> > Mobo: MSI MS-9130 Dual Socket 940 VIA K8T800 ATX Server Mobo
>
> I've always considered MSI to be, at best, a 2nd tier board maker.
>
> The 1st tier consists of - in no particular order - Intel, Gigabyte,
> ASUS, Tyan, SuperMicro.
>
> Corrections welcome.

Tyan & Asus have their share of crappy boards too.  Intel is usually rock
solid, but that won't do anyone wanting AMD CPUs any good.

Right now, dual Opteron systems, especially with a 64bit Linux distro, are
somewhat unstable.  Between crappy BIOS's, bad ACPI tables, and kernel
bugs, its a mixed bag.

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