Replacement motherboard options

[kextyn]

It appears that my motherboard has bit the dust. I can't keep the machine powered on for longer than a few hours and sometimes not longer than 5 seconds. Right now everything connected to it in any way is a different part from when I started diagnosing it. I was really hoping it'd just be the PSU or something. It's an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe BTW.

So I'm looking for a new motherboard and want at least 8 SATA 3 Gb/s ports but would prefer 9-10. I'm running Ubuntu Server 8.04 with software RAID5 with 7 disks (would be 7+hot spare if I have 10 SATA ports.) So rather than spend a lot of money on a PCIe SATA controller I'd rather just get it integrated on the motherboard as long as it can handle the storage bandwidth.

I'm currently looking at the Gigabyte GA-EP45-DQ6 and the Asus P5Q Premium mainly because they're the only LGA 775 boards I know of with 10 SATA 3Gb/s ports. They're very similar but I wanted to see if anyone has had any experience with these on Linux. I'd hate to blow $250 on a board that isn't fully compatible.

I will be using this board for Ubuntu Server hosting LAMP, RAID, and VMWare Server. Are there any other good boards out there I'm overlooking?

[tamoneya]

I vote for the gigabyte. Even at the chip level the boards look identical. The gigabyte however is slightly cheaper (newegg 7/28/2008). and also I have good results with gigabyte in general (i dont have this exact board). I have one asus board and I feel like my gigabytes work better. I have no specific complaints about the asus but I just dont like it as much.

[Richy]

I have the same symptoms as you do.
I'm going for an Asus P5K now.


However:STAY AWAY from Gigabyte-Mainboards.
They are not reliable. (Third Mainboard, 3rd Time gigabyte.. third failure)
lm_sensors never worked for me the right way either...