4 out of 5 eggsVMware ESXi Whitebox MoBo
Pros: I was looking for a decent MoBo for a VMware Whitebox ESXi deployment. This MB works fine for ESX but I have discovered a coupleof issues. Loaded with AMD Phenom x6 Core 3.2gz along with a 600GB Raptor and 3 SSD drives. 16GB of Ram. This is a great box for VMware ESX.
Cons: This is the second mobo for this whitebox ESX rig. For whatever the first one slowly started to fail. Booted fine for a couple of months. Then it might take powering on and off a couple of times. This got worse to the point it would not boot. It would reliably boot with 2 4GB Sticks of Kingston value RAM 1333 but not with 4 sticks. Couldn't figure it out. Ran Memtest on the memory for 1 day with no errors. Changed out CPUs, drives etc. Finally threw in the towel and replaced the mobo. All works fine now
Other Thoughts: When using with VMware ESXi, make sure to use Bios version 2006. The later ones will work but will drive you insane. Also make sure C1E support is disabled or the clock will forever fall behind and drive you mad.