Recomendation

I have been out of the multi cpu game for awhile, and wanted a recomendation
or two on a new server MB. I will be building a new server for the business,
it will bascially be a file server, app server, and file storage server. I
always build beyond specs that I need for longevity plus i am a tad bit of a
performance nut.

I want onboard vid, PCIe slots, only need 1 or two SATA II slots as I will
be using a real RAID card for storage. I plan to use a PC Power And Cooling
1K PSU, and the case I will be using will handle an extended form factor. It
must be quad core ready, as I plan to purchase a pair of 2000 series quad
core Opterons as soon as they are released. The one thing I am not sure on
is chipsets and their reliability. I see that broadcom has gotten into the
chipset game, but havnt found a lot of reviews on any of their stuff. All of
my desktop and workstation builds use Nvidia chipsets, and I have had real
good luck with them. But servers are a total different story.

So basic specs is two CPU Opteron, SATA 2.0 support, PCIe, DDR2 ECC support,
Firewire, USB, and no need for onboard LAN as I will be using a real LAN
card as well. Audio is not needed, but onboard bare minimum graphics needed.

On Nov 18, 12:35 am, "Angry American" <angryameri....TakeThisOut@nospam.net>
wrote:
> I have been out of the multi cpu game for awhile, and wanted a recomendation
> or two on a new server MB. I will be building a new server for the business,
> it will bascially be a file server, app server, and file storage server. I
> always build beyond specs that I need for longevity plus i am a tad bit of a
> performance nut.
>
> I want onboard vid, PCIe slots, only need 1 or two SATA II slots as I will
> be using a real RAID card for storage. I plan to use a PC Power And Cooling
> 1K PSU, and the case I will be using will handle an extended form factor. It
> must be quad core ready, as I plan to purchase a pair of 2000 series quad
> core Opterons as soon as they are released. The one thing I am not sure on
> is chipsets and their reliability. I see that broadcom has gotten into the
> chipset game, but havnt found a lot of reviews on any of their stuff. All of
> my desktop and workstation builds use Nvidia chipsets, and I have had real
> good luck with them. But servers are a total different story.
>
> So basic specs is two CPU Opteron, SATA 2.0 support, PCIe, DDR2 ECC support,
> Firewire, USB, and no need for onboard LAN as I will be using a real LAN
> card as well. Audio is not needed, but onboard bare minimum graphics needed.

I use a S2932. It has onboard ide and video and sata, dual cpu,
currently opteron dual, like you i'm waiting for the quads to ship, a
bios update will enable quad support. PCI-E, DDR2 ECC reg up to 64
Gigs, eight ram slots per cpu up to 4 gig per slot. I am happy with
it, no problems to report.

Dave