From owner-freebsd-smp Sun Mar 12 23:22:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1008C37B78E for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 23:22:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA24138; Sun, 12 Mar 2000 23:22:46 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 23:22:44 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual/Quad PIII motherboard ... recommendations requested ... Message-ID: <20000312232244.A16102@orion.ac.hmc.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: ; from scrappy@hub.org on Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 02:29:02AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 02:29:02AM -0400, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > I'm looking at upgraded one of my machines from a Single PIII to *at > least* a Dual, and am looking for recommendations. > > I've looked through the Tyan and ASUS sites, and I can't seem to find > anything at either that does >1GB of RAM ... > > What are ppl recommending nowadays as far as stable Dual/Quad > motherboards? ASUS, to me, has always been "the safe bet", is that still > the case? What about configurations of >1GB? ie. 8 vs 4 SIMM slots? Actually, Tyan has several >1GB solutions. They have a few 2GB boards based on the GX chipset that should be supported, one 2GB board based on the i840 which should probably work, and an 8GB (I assume 4GB on FreeBSD) based on the ServerWorks ServerSet III HE (is that supported?). Unfortunaly, that last two are currently only available to Tyan's alpha partners. I'm actually pretty curious if the ServerWorks (http://www.serverworks.com/) chipsets are or will be supported. The Tyan Thunder 2500 looks like a truly kickbutt board for a cluster connected with MyriNet or Gigabit Ethernet since all the PCI slots are 64-bit and two are 66Mhz as well. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message