From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 23 15:09:35 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11DFE16A42C for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:09:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout5.cac.washington.edu (mxout5.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAC1443D72 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:09:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.33.9]) by mxout5.cac.washington.edu (8.13.6+UW06.03/8.13.5+UW06.03) with ESMTP id k3NF9X9t009842 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 08:09:33 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.0.40] (dsl254-013-145.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.254.13.145]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.6+UW06.03/8.13.6+UW06.03) with ESMTP id k3NF9PKQ021243 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2006 08:09:32 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v749.3) In-Reply-To: References: <90B77A9F-FFE4-4227-80B1-FBF3DDC707B6@lafn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <89905B8A-4D99-4D2E-ACAB-09278A6E473A@u.washington.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Garrett Cooper Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 08:11:50 -0700 To: FreeBSD Questions X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.749.3) X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' Subject: Re: Motherboards X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:09:35 -0000 On Apr 23, 2006, at 2:14 AM, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > On 4/23/06, Francisco Reyes wrote: >> Andrew Pantyukhin writes: >> >>> Supermicro are also very good, but IMO they come second after Tyan. >> >> Coming late, ok way late :-), into the thread, but someone was >> mentioning >> that Supermicro motherboards had issues with Opterons. >> >> Anyone has experienced/read/heard about this? > > Well, I've heard that Google builds their newest servers > almost exclusively on Opteron/Supermicro. Google also back in the day took a bunch of bad donated RAM chips and put them to use using a special parity checking algorithm. The point is that Google doesn't always buy the absolute best hardware--they like many businesses put cost first. -Garrett