From owner-freebsd-smp Sun Oct 13 12:22:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A738537B401 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 12:22:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpf.casema.net (smtpf.casema.net [195.96.96.173]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 41AC843E7B for ; Sun, 13 Oct 2002 12:22:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark.lastdrager@pine.nl) Received: (qmail 20946 invoked by uid 0); 13 Oct 2002 19:22:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sventek) (62.234.42.45) by smtpf.casema.net with SMTP; 13 Oct 2002 19:22:28 -0000 From: "Mark Lastdrager" To: "Andrew MacIntyre" , Subject: RE: Abit SMP boards under FreeBSD (was Re: dnetc on xeon) Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 21:21:49 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > I believe the Abit VP6 and BP6 are quite similar and the > chipset runs > > very hot when in SMP mode, so since its not a proper > server board you > > might want to invest in some active cooling for your > chipset (usually > > just has a green heat sink on it). > > I think the VP6 uses the VIA [56]94 chipset, whereas the > BP6 uses the > Intel 440BX chipset - 2 very different animals. > > I remember some mail about problems with SMP with that VIA > chipset, which > I kept for a while but deleted only recently. I've seen a lot of VP6 boards die, including the one in my workstation at home. If you want to use the VP6, get yourself at least a decent power supply cause the VP6 seems to be quite tricky. By the way, FreeBSD runs perfectly on it ;-) -- Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message