From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 5 03:00:41 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org 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 B2A0716A41F for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 03:00:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEAC543D62 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2005 03:00:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jB530dR8062407; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 19:00:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.NUXI.org) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id jB530dgl062406; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 19:00:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 19:00:38 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Nathan Vidican Message-ID: <20051205030038.GB62285@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <20051201172828.5b25fdd4.kgunders@teamcool.net> <4390488A.9060708@wmptl.com> <439055CB.2030403@mail.uni-mainz.de> <43909927.8070108@wmptl.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <43909927.8070108@wmptl.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-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 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: "O. Hartmann" , freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tyan alternatives cuz their support totally sucks X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@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, 05 Dec 2005 03:00:41 -0000 On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 01:57:43PM -0500, Nathan Vidican wrote: > MSI has a server line as well, including 1U bare-bones, motherboards, > etc... I have 4 dual AMD Opteron boxes here based on MSI K8Master's ... > GREAT board, though must warn they are a bit pricey at ~ $500 - $600 / > each, I have them configured with dual 246 cpu's and 4gb ecc registered And you'll never be able to use anything better than rev.CG (130nm) Opteron 250's in this board due to lack of BIOS support. No PowerNow! either. Every Opteron board Tyan has produced they at least bothered to support rev.E single core. And Tyan supports rev.E dual-core on most of their Opteron boards that was released before dual-core. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)