From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 14 10:01:46 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 7317716A420 for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 10:01:46 +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 0265D43D1D for ; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 10:01:45 +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 j5EA1jPc001165; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 03:01:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.NUXI.org) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id j5EA1i0r001164; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 03:01:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 03:01:44 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Martin Nilsson Message-ID: <20050614100144.GA1103@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <99389684.20050610003512@molecon.ru> <20050613222428.GA3835@dragon.NUXI.org> <42AEA4DB.7020604@gneto.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42AEA4DB.7020604@gneto.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-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/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org 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 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: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 10:01:46 -0000 On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:35:23AM +0200, Martin Nilsson wrote: > 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. It depends on the revision of the Opteron used. Rev.E CPU's should handle 8*DDR333 fine. > MSI:s support is slow and terrible - you get what you pay for! Agreed! They also have a nasty habit of end-of-lifeing their Opteron boards. In fact you can't even navigate to the MS-9161 product page on the MSI USA web site. :-( > I'm testing the Supermicro OEM boards instead, I will post a status > report when I know more. What model board do you have? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)