From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 8 13:38:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fiver.stonehenge-net.com (dsl081-053-197.sfo1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.53.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B615537B403 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 13:38:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@stonehenge-net.com) Received: from stonehenge-net.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fiver.stonehenge-net.com (8.11.4/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f68KbLO33163; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 13:37:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@stonehenge-net.com) Message-ID: <3B48C481.7080104@stonehenge-net.com> Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 13:37:21 -0700 From: the walrus User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010706 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michal Mertl Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD Athlon MP & Tyan Thunder K7 (for server ?) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Michal Mertl wrote: > >The other (and more serious for me) is the problem with power supplies. >For this board you should get quality 400W (in my case 2x) and that's >difficult to get (at least for rackmountable cases). > actually, this board requires a special power supply. it uses the spec atx connector wired funny, and an additional connector to supply more juice for the processors > Also I don't like the >heat Athlon processors produce - > they've actually worked on that... the athlon mp is the same chip being marketed as the athlon 4 for notebooks. it's got a full implementation of sse (1, not 2) and runs a lot cooler a good collection of articles on the subject can be found at http://www.amdmb.com/news-display.php?NewsID=1956 . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message