TYAN S8236GM3NR SSI EEB Server Motherboard

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1. This is a seriously good board. Straightforward configuration.two. 2 x AMD 6128 + 16GB Kingston ECC RAM devoid of troubles.3. Applied fan management to avoid the Dynatron A6 coolers run at one hundred% all the time (LOUDƞ. Dual configuration flies!!! 1. CPU socket layout produced it a lot more of a challenge for G34 cpu socket coolers. 2. Clear CMOS jumper was set to default. Would not POST3. I get a CPU0 - IOAPIC error when loading ESXi four.1 I bought this board exclusively for ESXi - Seems to be working OK even though. I am nevertheless debating if I ought to get a Dell PowerEdge R610and maintaining this as a spare (second ESXi server) or will grow to be my desktop/workstation.I am not a Intel nor AMD fanboy. For the previous six years I have used Intel in all my builds...but these AMDs flies! ten VMs and running ultra smooth.

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Can deal with lots of RAM. * Horrible graphics functionality below Linux.* Poor RAID support under Linux... no Debian assistance, only suports older versions of Suse and Red Hat.Can't use 3Ware RAID adapter as CPU fans are straight in front of the PCIe slots and block sATA connectors.* IPMI interface is worthless... Can't scale video, with KDE mouse tracks but click is always in the uppermost left corner of screen, no matter exactly where it seems to be, remote keyboard will not function at all. Very unimpressed with this motherboard. My own fault...guess I should have completed far more analysis. Will write it off and get a SuperMicro.