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PC Hardware posted a review of DFI NB72-SR, the RAID enabled i845 based board from DFI. We tested this board with a socket 478 Pentium4 2.0Ghz which proved to be surprisingly overclockable. The motherboard was compared with MSI 850Pro2 which used the RAMBUS memory interface and the advantages of every solution were discussed. DFI NB72-SR was tested under Windows 2000 SP2 and Linux Mandrake 8.1 using productivity benchmarks and a MySQL database server playback script designed by PC Hardware. The possibility to choose DFI NB72-SR as a database server was also discussed. Take a quote:

"I think that it is very important to know how the 845 based solution performs in a professional network environment. In the last two or three months we received several requests from companies which wanted to replace their Pentium III servers with solutions based on Pentium IV CPUs. The database server is a critical part of a network because no matter how fast a web server is it must wait for the database answer. I asked our network administrator to design a small database playback script with complex select scripts. We used a MySQL database of 300Mb under Linux Mandrake 8.1, and we loaded the database contents into memory."

The review is available at:

http://www.pchardware.ro/Reviews/review.php?id=137