On Fri, 6 Jul 2012 20:16:50 +0200 Tamas Jalsovszky <jalsot@gmail.com> wrote:
How do we know which motherboards are "really really nice? Which parameters are the most important?
AM told you: cores NB + RAM + Server Mobo (not especially a top 1, but studied to pipe a maximum in parallel processing)
Maybe a brand (eg. supermicro) or price range could help choosing?
Supermicro has recentered its mobo gammut more on intel cpus than AMD these last years, and their quality/price isn't, uh... very good. http://www.tyan.com/product_SKU_spec.aspx?ProductType=MB&pid=670&SKU=6000001... It hasn't a low cost but that doesn't matter very much for a professional use, and this one can go up to 64 cores & 512 GB RAM. If you're patient (and if FS work on them?), HP and some others as concocting multi-many-bi/quad-core-ARM-A7~A9 server mobos which will give you a tremendous number of cores & RAM with the benefit of (very) low power consumption. Jean-Yves -- <OMG style> children make stupidities in the dark =P <Miou> stupidities in the dark make children...