Need inexpensive 939 motherboard...

[Merrill P. L. Worthington]

for home server. Must be able to run 24x7, have built-in video, run 4
SATA hard drives, 2 x IDE (4 devices) and gigabit LAN. Will run Ath 64
3000 Venice and 2 x 256mb DDR. Will be in open cabinet in cool room.

Will act as dedicated server. No user apps.

Reliable, unattended 24x7 is critical.

Current list of candidates include ASUS A8N-VM CSM.

Any other suggested candidates?

 

[BC]

for home server. Must be able to run 24x7, have built-in video, run 4
SATA hard drives, 2 x IDE (4 devices) and gigabit LAN. Will run Ath 64
3000 Venice and 2 x 256mb DDR. Will be in open cabinet in cool room.

Will act as dedicated server. No user apps.

Reliable, unattended 24x7 is critical.

Current list of candidates include ASUS A8N-VM CSM.

Any other suggested candidates?

Dear Merrill,

not sure if these qualify as "inexpensive", abut they are solid:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...2E16813151029,N82E16813151155,N82E16813151030

Last one in list has sound, which I do not think you need; difference
between the first two is RoHS compliance.

About $200. Not cheap, but on the low end for "real" server boards.
Note: you *can* use ECC memory with these, which, with a 24/7 machine
is perhaps not too bad an idea:

http://corsairmemory.com/corsair/products/tech/trg-ecc.html

In the really inexpensive category, the Biostar listed is about $10
cheaper than the Asus you listed above:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...mpareItemList=N82E16813138264,N82E16813131570

The Biostar gets better user reviews than the Asus board.

HTH,

BC

 

[Frodo]

Check out Asrock, the motherboards are made by ECS/PcChips?
But Asus owns Asrock.

 

[NilEinne]

for home server. Must be able to run 24x7, have built-in video, run 4
SATA hard drives, 2 x IDE (4 devices) and gigabit LAN. Will run Ath 64
3000 Venice and 2 x 256mb DDR. Will be in open cabinet in cool room.

Will act as dedicated server. No user apps.

Reliable, unattended 24x7 is critical.

Current list of candidates include ASUS A8N-VM CSM.

Any other suggested candidates?

You're looking at quite a demanding setup there. Are you sure
inexpensive mobo is the way you want to go? Also, are you sure 512mb is
enough RAM for your purposes. Seems a bit skimpy for a server (although
it depends what exactly it's doing). I assume at least you're not
intending to use Windows or any other RAM intensive OS with a GUI

 

[Merrill P. L. Worthington]

You're looking at quite a demanding setup there. Are you sure
inexpensive mobo is the way you want to go? Also, are you sure 512mb is
enough RAM for your purposes. Seems a bit skimpy for a server (although
it depends what exactly it's doing). I assume at least you're not
intending to use Windows or any other RAM intensive OS with a GUI

Simple file server for file sharing and storage of ripped DVDs. No
RAID, just hard drives. Likely run XP. Previous server ran W2K with
512mb just fine. But it couldn't do gigabit LAN and couldn't support
enough hard drives.

 

[OSbandito]

Merrill P. L. Worthington replied:

Simple file server for file sharing and storage of ripped DVDs. No
RAID, just hard drives. Likely run XP. Previous server ran W2K with
512mb just fine. But it couldn't do gigabit LAN and couldn't support
enough hard drives.

Humbly suggest you listen to NilEinne. Windows is not suitable for
this: 1) high risk of intrusion, 2) bloated OS demanding lots of
memory. You might try BSD or "Trusted" version of Solaris.