[K12OSN] Good AMD 64 bit system recomendations?

Wed May 4 19:09:15 UTC 2005

Sudev Barar wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 11:15 -0400, Henry Burroughs wrote:
> 
>>I'm thinking about making my file backup server 64 bit.  Any
>>recommendations on processor models and motherboards?  I will probably
>>run Centos or RHEL 4.0.
> 
> 
> Have had good working with AMD64 MSI motherboards. But watch out that
> you buy one with Via SATA controller since Sil/Ati drivers are not
> available. Alternate (that also has been used by me) is to plug in a Via
> PCI SATA card and get going. 

I love the Tyan dual and single Opteron Boards.

http://www.tyan.com/products/html/opteron.html

We use them in all of our K12LTSP installs.

--scott