> Looking for motherboard recommendations and a good place to buy. Don't > care about gaming or whizzy graphics. This will be used for financial > analysis and database operations. Need connections for 6 disks (3 sets of > mirrors). Need at least 16 Gb of ram. Mostly interested in getting a > solid reliable board.
I recommend boards *without* electrolytic capacitors. In my experience those have been the parts that are most prone to fail. Reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague. Asus and Gigabyte manufacture such boards, though I don't know if *all* their boards meet that threshold. I usually have to resort to examining a picture of the board to determine whether electrolytics are being used. They're pretty obvious, taller than most components, and typically black with a blue stripe on them, and silver on top. (Galen or Keith can correct me on that.) More generally, I've never had a problem with any general purpose board and Linux. -Brian M. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
