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John L.

John L.

Joined on 07/15/03

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Good Board

GIGABYTE GA-M68SM-S2 AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 7025 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
GIGABYTE GA-M68SM-S2 AM2 NVIDIA GeForce 7025 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

Pros: Board give you lots of flexibility with drives, usb and even firewire. Seems to be very stable. Updating bios was easy with the gigabyte update utility. I've installed 3 of these boards with only one head-scratcher. See below

Cons: None. I'm not an overclocker so haven't had any issues with bios options.

Overall Review: Head-scratcher - I couldn't get the board to boot the sata hard drive from cold start. I searched and finally found the reason. After a bios update, you need to load the optimized defaults in the bios. I did that, rebooted then went in and made my bios tweaks. All was well after that.

Perfect Headless Server

MSI Wind PC Intel 945GC Barebone
MSI Wind PC Intel 945GC Barebone

Pros: This thing is perfect as a Linux headless server. I have Ubuntu server upgraded to 10.4 on this with two 2TB drives in software raid 1. I use this for samba, ssh, ampache music streaming, sftp and other things. It runs basically 24/7. The Ampache streaming over the net is flawless. I have listened to my music from many different states.

Cons: Doesn't cook eggs and bacon.

Overall Review: For a low power server, you really can't beat it. I think this could easily be a file server in a small biz environment, at least with a linux OS. My CPU load on this is almost nothing and I am backing up huge image files to it almost daily.