Quoting Dennis Glatting <dg17_at_penx.com>: > On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 07:31 -0500, eculp wrote: >> I just saw this box that is being promoted as a gaming machine at a >> great price and am considering it as a web-server. >> >> In addition to having no information on the CPU as a server lack of >> comfort with 6 cores and memory 8GB of memory that I am having a >> problem with. I am not a gamer but I have always assumed that a >> gaming machine needs the most aggressive hardware. I have also seen >> this processor with 12 GB rather than 8 which, in my ignorance sounds >> better. >> >> Any opinions and guidance are appreciated. >> > > I have been moving away from Gigabyte however I do have a similar board: > > MB GIGABYTE GA-870A-UD3 RT This one is GA-890BPA-UD3G that also has RealTek 811D 10/100/1000 Mbit that I doubt will be a limitation. I'll stick in another card anyway. I also like that has is sata3 and usb 3 so it seems to be up to date. > > My key complaint about Gigabyte is the ReatTek Ethernet chips. Realtek > doesn't publish chip specs and therefore the drivers under FreeBSD/Linux > are so-so (i.e., they work but not performance optimized and forget > about anything but the default MTU). > > On my board I hate the South Bridge chip, which is useless for RAID. > > I am also unable to install VMWare ESXi, my last ditch attempt to find a > use for my board. There appears to be a hardware incompatibility while > installing (i.e., not during the probe sequence, rather after that > sequence then onto installation). > Thanks a lot for your suggestions and point of view. I'm begining to think that this may be too much machine but comming down doesn't save much so I will probably give it a try. ed > > >Received on Thu Jun 30 2011 - 12:53:46 UTC
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