[dundee] Choosing a new motherboard

[James Young]

Hi Alan,

Happy New Year to you too.  Sorry to hear about your machine going wrong.

Thanks for providing the asrock info. Can we ask; Does it beep?  Do you 
get any lights? How much have you got to spend?

Any board/proc combo over £50.00 per board or proc would do the job 
pretty well.  If you do go for a faster (£90+ processor DO spend £40'ish 
on cooling, particularly AMD).

I've used overclockers, www.overclockers.co.uk in the past for this 
stuff and they're good.  Anyone got any other clocker companies they'd 
recommend?

Cooling and a good PSU is important for an upgrade if you're running a 
fast CPU or overclocking.  So, case form factor and placement are 
important that is a)case off the floor and b)lots of room to move the 
air around inside. 

New motherboard means you'll need RAM too. On the Ram side 1GB+ and ECC 
is essential for a server imho. I recommend www.crucial.com/uk. 


Best,

James


Alan S Frost wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Happy New year.
>
> I avidly watch the posts to this forum and thank you for all the hints 
> and tips I have gleaned over the last year.
>
> I apologise in advance for not having provided much input to the group 
> but alas my knowledge is still growing in the Linux arena and I don't 
> feel I have attained a sufficiently strong level to participate 
> effectively.
>
> I wish to build a new Linux development server for my home office.  
> The case currently contains  a demised Asrock Upgrade K8 754 
> motherboard with an AMD processor. Not sure which component has died - 
> shame really as it worked quite as a Win2K server. (Sorry didn't want 
> to say that too loudly in current company).
>
> I wondered if any of you had any recommendations to a good combination 
> of motherboard & processor to run RH Fedora 7.
>
> The new server will be a combination server and will have to cater for 
> all capabilities (file, print, database, etc). It will eventually host 
> 2TB of raid 5 storage.
>
> Hope one day to make it over to a Dundee meeting but Crieff is a long 
> way to travel for just a couple of hours.
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Alan
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