On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Bill Moseley wrote: > Proably the wrong forum, but trying to build a new Debian imap server. > > After spending a few hours the last few days researching motherboards I > went to the local stop to pick up an Asus P4B-533-E (which they said they > had on the phone). Of course, they were out and said it was no longer > available. The ASUS site doesn't show that.
Indeed, and many places sell them. > I'll be installing with a 2.4.18 or 2.4.20 kernel. I'll be using a P4 2.4 > 533 FSB CPU. The sweet point on cpu's seems to be the 2.4 or 2.53 ghz cpu's right now. > There there seems to be a number of 845 chip sets, but I see a number of > different ones: <snip> > Seems to effect what memory to use (pc2100 or pc2700) but I'm not sure how > it might effect a Debian install. http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/sitemap.htm?iid=PCG+devleftnav&; That has all the chipsets listed, and you can see what's unique about each one. Most of it is different speed built-in video, different memory speeds, and different ram type support. It's going to come down to performance a bit, unless you ended up with PC133 in which case that's a major performance hit. Onboard video is supposed to slow down your regular memory access as well. > I'm looking for a basic board with NIC/video/LAN onboard. No video onboard on that P4B533-E anyways, so you're "lucky" on that one being out of stock. The P4B533-VM has video onboard, optional lan. I use the 533 on some of our servers, they work quite nicely. With an Antec 630II case, the cable layout is almost perfect. I have one 533-E in use if I remember right. The 533-E has a highpoint raid controller onboard. Don't bother. Spend the ~145 dollars, and pick up a 3ware 7000 or the 300ish for a 7500-4LP hardware raid card. Very nice and easy debian support, and these are fast. the bf2.4 kernel doesn't support the onboard LAN on the 533-E, but a 2.4.20 and I think 2.4.19 kernel does just fine. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
