Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 05:39:43PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote:Asus is fantastic! for a consumer-level board, especially their enthusiast line.However, do not buy Asus for production work. For workstations, servers, and non-consumer-grade desktops, Asus is subpar, as are many other popular brands. The goal is not "high availability".What brand board would you use for a reliable box?You would not agree with that statement. I wonder what the criteria are for "production work". My EPOX-8VTAI?Hugo
The criteria depend on the production. My own estimates for lifetimes (if it were up to me): Secretary: 5-6 years College Student: 4 years Engineering Workstation: 18 months Mail Server, before spam: 10-15 years Mail Server, Post Spam: 2 years Web Server, dialup: 6 years Web Server, before video: 5 years Web Server, after video: 18 months DB server, before Oracle: 25 years (mainframe, with upgrades) DB, post-Oracle, before-Google: 5 years DB, post-Google: 1.5-3 years Final Rendering: 3-9 months (one animated feature film) (I'm prepared to be wrong on ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^) (Key word is "Final") Space shuttle: 35-40 years Space Station: 5-6 years Air traffic controller: 50 years Network router: 1 year (now) Consumer wireless router: 1 year (sad but true) Nuclear power plant: Variable Consumer PC: 4.5-6 years Prosumer PC: 3 years Enthusiast PC: 18 months Diehard Crazy person PC: 9 months or less Supercomputer: Surprisingly long Chess-playing Supercomputer: Surprisingly short Debian User PC: Infinity Substitute your own numbers. Add more categories. Enjoy. Mark Allums