[lug] Motherboard recommendations?

Chip Atkinson chip at rmpg.org
Fri Oct 25 09:18:28 MDT 2002


It sounds like it would be total overkill to get an "official" server type
mb, then.  I was wondering about that too.

Chip
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Rob Riggs wrote:

> You should be able to do it for well under $600. Decent Athlon
> motherboard ($100),  Athlon XP 2000 processor ($100), 512MB ECC DDR RAM
> ($150).
>
> I bought an Abit motherboard recently and was quite happy with it. The
> KX7-333 boards can be had for ~$80. I've heard very good things about
> the Soyo Dragon motherboards. They are a little more expensive though
> (~$120).
>
> This should easily handle mail and web (and FTP!) over DSL. (Can you say
> "overkill"?) :-)
>
> -Rob
>
> Chip Atkinson wrote:
>
> >Greetings,
> >
> >I'm going to put together a server and wanted to ask for some opinions.
> >Here are the constraints that I know of:
> >I'd like to keep the thing under $600 for motherboard, memory, and
> >processor.  I have all the other cards, disks, and case.
> >
> >I'm going to be using it as a mail and web server mainly.  Perhaps FTP,
> >but that's up in the air.  It'll be attached to a 640K DSL line.
> >
> >It will have a RAID card in it as well.
> >
> >Any comments?
> >
> >Thanks in advance.
> >
> >Chip
> >
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