[NBLUG/talk] Considerations for a new motherboard?

[Jippen]

64-bit is nice, because you can just install a 32bit os on it, and
upgrade when it is better supported. Only real hitch with a 64 bit
system so far is that heartbeat doesn't run unless its in a 32bit
chroot

If you don't care about over/under clocking, try an EGS motherboard.
My current one supports 4 IDE drives and 4 sata, with RAID 0/1/0+1/5
onboard. The onboard sound on them is pretty nice as well. And it has
onboard gigabit.

PCI-Express and PCI-X are the same thing. Your main concern will be
loosing the AGP card if you go that way. If you don't need the
graphics power, it may not be a big deal, but if you do, PCI-E is MUCH
faster.

Performance Per Watt: Dual-cores are better then single-cores. AMD is
better then Intel. Other then that, google is your friend.