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Phooey (#5)

I'm doing a burn-in test on a new motherboard for Pell. Since the old motherboard (an AMD k7/550) is at least six years old, it's probably a good time to replace it with a newer one. And what makes a better newer motherboard than the C2600 equipped eMachines motherboard that my mother threw out when she abandoned the Windows world for a Macintel? The C2600 is

1. cheap
2. cheap
3. cheap
4. and, most importantly, cheap

So what would make a better motherboard for one of my network servers? When Apple comes out with their Macintel xserve boxes, I might buy one of them to replace Pell (provided, of course, that I can fit SLS linux onto an xserve...) but until then I'm certainly not going to go out of my way to spend money on the upgrade.

—orc Tue May 9 11:45:26 2006