From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 5 17:58:53 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB85616A40A for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 17:58:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.net (mail.wmptl.com [216.8.159.133]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62B9513C44B for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 17:58:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Received: from [10.0.0.11] ([10.0.0.11]) by wmptl.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l35HmX5b034578; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 13:48:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from nvidican@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <46153678.7010409@wmptl.com> Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:48:40 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061027) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Don O'Neil" References: <00e001c777a2$8fb5c490$0600020a@mickey> In-Reply-To: <00e001c777a2$8fb5c490$0600020a@mickey> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.54 on 10.0.0.80 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommended SMP Hardware 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: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:58:53 -0000 Don O'Neil wrote: > I'm getting ready to obsolete one of my old dual P2-800 servers and wanted > to get some suggestions from you all... I'm going to be building a new > server to replace it and need more power, but not a TON more power... > Something along the lines of dual 2.5 GHz processors with 4 GB RAM should be > more than enough. > > Any one have some suggestions for lower priced dual processor motherboards > and CPU combos? Athlon, Xeon, P4, whatever, doesn't really matter. I'd like > to hear from some of you who are actually using certain combos in production > and your experiences (good or bad) with them and FreeBSD 6.2. > > Thanks! > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > I guess that all depends on what you mean by 'lower priced'... We're using home-built dual AMD Opteron boxes that have performed excellent over the last two years. Mind you, when we built them here they were a bit more pricey than they can be had for now - but even then complete in rack mount chassis with ECC registered memory and a terabyte of RAID 5 using 3Ware Escalades - we still came in under $4500 (Canadian; approx $3200 US at the time). We based them on MSI motherboards (K8D-Master's which have S-ATA or SCSI built in), using WDC RAID Edition S-ATA drives and 3Ware 9500 series controllers (which were VERY new at the time ~ $500 /each). If I had to do it all over again - I'd go the same route, although perhaps with a slightly cheaper motherboard (the ones we used were $720/each and we utilized very few of the on-board goodies - they support up to 24GB ram, we've got 4gb in them so kinda overkill). Also - most newer boards support dual-core cpu's as well... if you're looking for top-notch, but bottom dollar SMP - try a higher end single opteron board with dual core CPU. Just my two cents - hope it helps. BTW - we're running 6.1 - 6.2 and variants on them now with no difficulties. -- Nathan Vidican nvidican@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/