From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 14 09:35:27 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 8C17B16A41C for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 09:35:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from martin@gneto.com) Received: from av9-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (av9-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37E7643D48 for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 09:35:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from martin@gneto.com) Received: by av9-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 304AE3816D; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 11:35:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.92]) by av9-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21E3537FBE; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 11:35:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.2.30] (h63n1fls31o985.telia.com [213.65.16.63]) by smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8F3B37E4A; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 11:35:24 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <42AEA4DB.7020604@gneto.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 11:35:23 +0200 From: Martin Nilsson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: sv, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org References: <99389684.20050610003512@molecon.ru> <20050613222428.GA3835@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <20050613222428.GA3835@dragon.NUXI.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: What kind of MotherBoard is better for FreeBsd and linux? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 09:35:27 -0000 David O'Brien wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 12:35:12AM +0400, Oleg Rusanov wrote: > >>What kind of MotherBoard for Amd64 OPteron 252 or 264 processors is >>better for FreeBsd and linux? >> >>----------------Amd64 OPteron 264 MBs------------- >>MSI >> K8D Master3 (MS-9161) >> 2.0 eATX AMD-8131 Supports up to processor stepping: E6 > > > This board is nice in that it has 12 DIMM slots - so you can easily get > 12gb or 24gb in a 2P machine. Uses the AMD8100 chipset. It is very picky with the memories on the CPU that have 8 slots. MSI only supports 8 dimms on that CPU at 266MHz, 6*dimm at 333MHz. I managed to get it to work at 400MHz with 6* Samsung handpicked dimms (bga chips) but YMMV, so don't count on it! MSI:s support is slow and terrible - you get what you pay for! Also IPMI is not availabe on this board, making it not that useful as a server in a remote location. I'm testing the Supermicro OEM boards instead, I will post a status report when I know more. /Martin