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Originally Posted by nsmoller
People seem to be fans of the supermicro board... how do i know if CentOS or RH8 will work with these?
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I believe Supermicro only makes server type boards, and I have heard from many that Supermicro is really the top dog when it comes to that type of hardware. Supermicro, Tyan & Intel I've read are generally the best when it comes to server motherboards.
As you already mentioned, you might not actually need a server class board. More than likely not, but you do get what you pay for when it comes to this type of stuff.
I'm not sure if RH8 would have any issue with drivers for everything on the motherboard. For example, the NIC drivers... gigabit ethernet cards were pretty much unheard of when RH8 was released. Unless the Intel NIC drivers haven't changed since 2002... you would probably have trouble with this. RH8 may not even detect the NIC at all until you install the drivers... could turn in to a major pain. CentOS would more than likely have full support for the hardware, although that's not a 100% certainty. But is a lot more likely to support all the hardware as compared to RH8.
Something else to think about... how important will the data on the server be? If the hard disk crashed and was unrecoverable, would that be a problem? If so, it would probably be best to spend more of your budget on that side of things.
I noticed the Newegg format item numbers right away. Great place to shop. I buy most of my computer hardware from there.
