From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 16 00:04:19 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 16E0B16A4CF for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:04:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 001C743D1F for ; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:04:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i1G82iOJ057515; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:02:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i1G82e1c057513; Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:02:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:02:40 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: adridg@cs.kun.nl Message-ID: <20040216080240.GD54371@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <002c01c3f312$947a26a0$c901a8c0@ts> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: Luca Massarenti cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: which motherboard and which chipset? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 08:04:19 -0000 On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 11:26:06PM +0100, Adriaan de Groot wrote: > Take a look at the archives of this list (via > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-amd64 ), there's lot of > hardware mentioned. I think a lot depends on how much memory you need to > support your users: Athlon64 boards (single CPU) tend to top out at 4G > theoretical and 3G practical (like my Asus k8v, with 3 slots so I could > stick 3G of DDR266 in it) ; Opteron boards for single CPU with 4 slots top > out at 8G theoretical (4x2G Registered), but I hear tales of an sk8n > supporting only 3.5G. Dual boards run up to 8 slots, for 16G of memory. Not just SK8N's. Just about every AMD64 mobo will "loose" physical memory from 3.5-4GB. So one would get 17.5GB in your example of 8x2GB DIMM's. The reasons have been explained in this list before. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)