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Old 11th February 2009
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My mainboard broke, good excuse for a system upgrade I guess.

At first sight, the Asus KFN5-D SLI seems like a good choice, at a prety reasonable price, officially it's a server mainboard, but it seems to be targeted at the workstation/desktop market too (support).

For CPU, something in the Opteron 8300 series (Two of them of course, 8 cores in total) ... Need to find good reviews of this ...

My experience with Operton is limited, can someone offer useful comments on it? I can also use Xeons, but I'm not that much of an Intel fan, not so much because of technical reasons, but more for political ... But if Xeons are really better then I'll go for Xeon.
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