At 11:32 AM 3/7/00 -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>On Tue, 07 Mar 2000 10:40:05 -0700 
> Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org> wrote:
>
> > Lets say you were building a NetBSD based webserver and wanted XXXmhz 
> > PIII and just wanted it to work?  What have people used recently?
>
>The Abit motherboards are nice.  I know a lot of people who have one model
>of Abit or another, and they're very happy with them.

I also have 3 Abit BH-6's and a BP-6, and all of them are working famously.
One nice thing about Abit is that you can tweak voltage and bus speed
settings to get more mhz out of your CPU (although you probably wouldn't
want to do that on a production server).

I've also had good luck in the past with Intel motherboards, although I
haven't bought one in awhile. I'm thinking of getting a CA810EAL
motherboard with integrated video/sound/ethernet - the 810 isn't the
fastest chipset on the market, but everything on the motherboard + an
FC-PGA PIII means that you can fit an entire server into a 1U high box.

(Speaking of that - apparently you need to get special low profile memory
for this. The two places where I've found 1U cases have memory, but it
seems quite expensive relative to the market; anybody know a source of
regularly priced DIMMs that are low profile?)

>I also just bought an Abit, and it's pretty nice, tho mine's a BP6 (dual
>Socket 370 -- not a P-III board...)

I've seen rumors that they will be coming out with a PIII-compatible model
"sometime". Also, http://www.bp6.com claims that some other company
(Powerleap?) will have an FC-PGA to PPGA adapter which will allow using
PIII's in the BP6.