From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 19 00:05:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12BDA16A4CE for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 00:05:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mxfep01.bredband.com (mxfep01.bredband.com [195.54.107.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D14943D1D for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 00:05:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lars.tunkrans@bredband.net) Received: from [192.168.245.231] ([213.112.167.129] [213.112.167.129]) by mxfep01.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20040919000527.XVNL1871.mxfep01.bredband.com@[192.168.245.231]> for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 02:05:27 +0200 Message-ID: <414CCCF2.20208@bredband.net> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 02:04:02 +0200 From: Lars Tunkrans Organization: None User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040618 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org References: <20040915003915.2489d1b0.solita2@solitarylight.com> <200409150829.10481.fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> <414CB011.4030206@withagen.nl> In-Reply-To: <414CB011.4030206@withagen.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Mainboard suggestions? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 00:05:34 -0000 Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > Well I'd have to argue about that. I had to replace a MSI K8T > Master2-FAR board with 2 opteron 242 processors because it was causing > crashes to no end during high load. As soon as the load went over 10 for > a longer period the board crashed. After long discussions with people > doing the amd64 port I bought a new board (Tyan Tiger), and that has > proven rock solid with all the same components. Supposedly it is because > of "things" with the VIA chipset, but the finer details never became > clear. > And looking at others thru google, there are a lot of people not very > happy with that board. Hello, I installed the "MSI K8T Neo2 FIR" and an AMD64 3800+ in my old chassie this thursday. It is a socket 939 board with Via KT800Pro chipset. Today I have installed Fbsd 5.3 AMD64 Beta4 with some success. It is a single CPU board with Realtek gigabit Eth , Firewire and ATA/SATA Raid. ( Promise chipset) I Have disabled the RAID in Bios an use the "trusted" old ATA UDMA100. Otherwise the Ethernet and firewire interfaces runs from the beginning with the BETA4 CDROM. I did choose this board because there was too many reported problems with NFORCE 3 boards. specifically the "sk0 - driver " problems that seems plauge all newer ASUS boards. Also I wanted the socket 939 128-bit ram-bus with non-ecc memory for cost and speed reasons. I paid about $1200 for the MOBO + AMD64 3800 + 1 GB RAM. If I was buying an Opteron SMP workstation, and money was not an issue... I would go for the "SUN Microsystems W2100z" , its built around the AMD8000 series chipset. Regards //Lars