I'm looking at setting up a new machine to run CentOS 5 and a few VMWare machines to test Windows XP, Vista, and 7. I'm working with a custom PC shop and they've recommended I use either the ASUS PT6 or Intel DX58SO. Any feedback good or bad on either of these? Thanks! --Chris
Chris Boyd wrote:> I'm looking at setting up a new machine to run CentOS 5 and a few > VMWare machines to test Windows XP, Vista, and 7. I'm working with a > custom PC shop and they've recommended I use either the ASUS PT6 or > Intel DX58SO. Any feedback good or bad on either of these?I run a similar setup with a DQ45EK, one gen before what you are recommended, it works perfect out-of-the-box with CentOS 5.2, with the new beta 5.3 kernel I do not need any kmod's so all devices are recognized directly http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5/ I run a CentOS 5.3beta 64bit xen kernel which works perfect
Chris Boyd wrote:> I'm looking at setting up a new machine to run CentOS 5 and a few > VMWare machines to test Windows XP, Vista, and 7. I'm working with a > custom PC shop and they've recommended I use either the ASUS PT6 or > Intel DX58SO. Any feedback good or bad on either of these?Neither of them seem to support ECC, not that I can recommend this board specifically but it does appear to support ECC and runs the i7: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/X58/X8ST3-F.cfm Though all 3 boards seem to have the same chipset so it's possible the other two support ECC too. Also the Supermicro board has the advantage of having remote management support(IPMI 2.0) whereas the other boards don't seem to have anything like it. The Asus has shitty networking on it(Realtek), I assume the Intel one has an Intel NICs, and the Supermicro has Intel as well. nate
Thanks for the replies. I'll go with the Intel board. This is for a desktop development and test system, so remote management is not a requirement. --Chris
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Chris Boyd <cboyd at gizmopartners.com> wrote:> I''m looking at setting up a new machine to run CentOS 5 and a few > VMWare machines to test Windows XP, Vista, and 7. I''m working with a > custom PC shop and they''ve recommended I use either the ASUS PT6 or > Intel DX58SO. Any feedback good or bad on either of these? >CentOS 5.2 can not found 2 on-board NIC of ASUS P6T Deluxe series. -- http://vnoss.org
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 2:54 PM, <jkinz at kinz.org> wrote:> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 01:42:46PM +0100, Vnpenguin wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Chris Boyd <cboyd at gizmopartners.com> wrote: >> > I''m looking at setting up a new machine to run CentOS 5 and a few >> > VMWare machines to test Windows XP, Vista, and 7. I''m working with a >> > custom PC shop and they''ve recommended I use either the ASUS PT6 or >> > Intel DX58SO. Any feedback good or bad on either of these? >> > >> >> CentOS 5.2 can not found 2 on-board NIC of ASUS P6T Deluxe series. > > It is not clear what the above sentence is supposed to mean. > > Are you trying to say : > > "CentOS 5.2 can not be found on the ASUS P6T Deluxe series with 2 > on-board NICs." > > OR are you trying to say : > > "CentOS 5.2 can not find the 2 on-board NICs of ASUS P6T Deluxe > series." >Sorry, my bad english. I mean that when I installed CentOS 5.2 on a box with ASUS P6T, the installator of CentOS can not found 2 on-board NIC. So I have to add another NIC to work. -- http://vnoss.org