Hardware Analysis Community Forums http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/3187/ 2008-11-21T01:08:03-05:00 http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/3187/ http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/halogo.gif text/html 2002-10-21T11:47:22-05:00 Peter Piper http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/3187/#15166 I like AMD Boards, but they are not so good for servers. The K7 has no overheat protection. You mus solve this with a software solution. Its not so easy for everyone.<br /> A overheatet AMD CPU can damage the second CPU and the board! text/html 2002-10-21T07:30:04-05:00 Pedro Silva http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/3187/#0 Another thing that you might have forgotten, was to try de MSI K7D. At the Science Computer Departament were I work as system administrator, we're using them with dual Athlon MP 2000+ and they rock! Our server is running with 1GB of RAM (DDR) and 80GB IBM disk, Mandrake 9.0 and apache 1.3.27 configured with all the extras that Mandrake offers: php, advanced extranet,.. . It hosts web pages, an webmail and mailing lists. <br /> We never had stability problems it runs smootlhy <img src="http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/smilies/smile1.gif" width="14" height="14" border="0" alt=":-)" title=":-)">