Odd Motherboard

[R Scott Belford]

What kind of boss do you have?  Oh wait, I know your boss.  While I 
always wanted to venture into the high end realm of server AMD 
motherboards, the POS implementations you are addressing obviously 
require stability.  The SuperMicro boards tend to use the ServerWorks 
chipset, look to be very well constructed, and you can get a smart 
engineer on the phone within a few minutes if you have questions.  If 
something goes wrong with it, you aren't backed in to a corner because 
of your own AMD choice.(despite the price/performance advantages)  ERT's 
server uses a PII SuperMicro board.  We built several boxes with them, I 
think they are still kicking.  You may have followed the thread in /. 
about the group who constructed a high end, large capacity storage box.  
Or was it Warren's link to a terrabyte server?  I forget, but they used 
a sick number of hard drives and built it all on a SuperMicro board.  
You may be safer with one, but it may not be better.

this is my limited but cautious insight

scott



On Wednesday, January 23, 2002, at 02:31  PM, Jeff Mings wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
>    One of our clients wants a P4 mobo with 64 bit PCI slots to support 
> an ultra SCSI 160 controller.  I've been watching the Athlon boards 
> more myself, and am not that familiar with the P4 "server" 
> motherboards.  My boss wants to use one of  the SuperMicro boards.
>
> Any recommendations?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff Mings
>
>
>
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