Re: Suggestions for Xeon motherboards

daytripper wrote:
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 01:45:51 +0000, "Dave (from the UK)"
<see-my-signature@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


A friend has got for me two or three 3.06 GHz Xeon processors (512 KB cache, 533 MHz FSB which are upgrades for a Compaq DL360 G3 - p/n 322472-B21).

I'm thinking of buying a Xeon motherboard and putting them in it to make a Linux workstation. (I don't have the Compaq server).

Any suggestions as to which boards are good/bad? Any particular "gotchas" to watch if buying a board from eBay?

The processors have the fans and heatsinks, but I believe they might be quite small compared to some others, as the machine they were for is a 1 U server.


I've always been partial to SuperMicro server motherboards. Wrt to the
processors you have in hand, a couple of years ago I built a dual Prestonia
533fsb workstation using a SuperMicro X5DAE motherboard (E7500 chipset) with
an 8x AGP triple-head Matrox card and a SCSI raid host adapter. It's been a
paragon of function and stability. It's still shown on SM's web site.

Thanks.

The few times (roughly a dozen) that I've bought items from ebay I've never
had any problem. I use a Paypal account linked to a credit card in preference
to using the credit card directly with the seller...

Cheers

I was more interested in anything specific on motherboards - like "you need xyz" which people always loose or break or .... etc

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