From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Nov 15 18:28:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from adsl-63-192-211-186.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (adsl-63-192-211-186.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.192.211.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C00037B4E5 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 18:28:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.minions.com (bifrost@localhost.minions.com [127.0.0.1]) by adsl-63-192-211-186.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA35225; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 18:28:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 18:28:28 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Koen Schreel Cc: KT Sin , freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: via chipset and SMP In-Reply-To: <3A0BD201.70E5D8C4@tue.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > I am thinking of getting a dual coppermine board with VIA chipset. > > Has anyone tried running FreeBSD SMP on such boards? Is the VIA's > > SMP chipset any good? > > I'm running an MSI 694D-pro now pretty stable with two PIII-800's. Had > some problems with memory initially, but now it runs OK for some time. I had the same problem. I initially bought PC-133 ECC Registered DIMMS, and the 694D board didn't work at all. > Not the highest performing chipset, but it has a reasonable > price/performance ratio. yah, the board is $150 and supports a decent amount of stuff. I haven't had the box crash on me yet after I got the ram stuff sorted out. Its running 4.2-BETA right now, doing pretty speedily. --- Tom bifrost@minions.com "Where am I and why am I in this handbasket?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message