Quoting Dennis Glatting <d...@penx.com>:
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 07:31 -0500, eculp wrote:
I just saw this box that is being promoted as a gaming machine at a
great price and am considering it as a web-server.
In addition to having no information on the CPU as a server lack of
comfort with 6 cores and memory 8GB of memory that I am having a
problem with. I am not a gamer but I have always assumed that a
gaming machine needs the most aggressive hardware. I have also seen
this processor with 12 GB rather than 8 which, in my ignorance sounds
better.
Any opinions and guidance are appreciated.
I have been moving away from Gigabyte however I do have a similar board:
MB GIGABYTE GA-870A-UD3 RT
This one is GA-890BPA-UD3G that also has RealTek 811D 10/100/1000 Mbit
that I doubt will be a limitation. I'll stick in another card anyway.
I also like that has is sata3 and usb 3 so it seems to be up to date.
My key complaint about Gigabyte is the ReatTek Ethernet chips. Realtek
doesn't publish chip specs and therefore the drivers under FreeBSD/Linux
are so-so (i.e., they work but not performance optimized and forget
about anything but the default MTU).
On my board I hate the South Bridge chip, which is useless for RAID.
I am also unable to install VMWare ESXi, my last ditch attempt to find a
use for my board. There appears to be a hardware incompatibility while
installing (i.e., not during the probe sequence, rather after that
sequence then onto installation).
Thanks a lot for your suggestions and point of view. I'm begining to
think that this may be too much machine but comming down doesn't save
much so I will probably give it a try.
ed
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