From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 14 12:15:17 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 D253316A41C; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:15:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from martin@gneto.com) Received: from av12-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (av12-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 756FB43D1F; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:15:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from martin@gneto.com) Received: by av12-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id BA5BE3821F; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:15:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp4-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp4-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.93]) by av12-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D8E338216; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:15:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.2.30] (h63n1fls31o985.telia.com [213.65.16.63]) by smtp4-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DBB937E4A; Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:15:06 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <42AECA48.3090101@gneto.com> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:15:04 +0200 From: Martin Nilsson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: sv, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <99389684.20050610003512@molecon.ru> <20050613222428.GA3835@dragon.NUXI.org> <42AEA4DB.7020604@gneto.com> <20050614100144.GA1103@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <20050614100144.GA1103@dragon.NUXI.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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 12:15:17 -0000 David O'Brien wrote: >>>>MSI >>>>K8D Master3 (MS-9161) >>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. Aha, nice to know I probably had rev.CG (2*246) as this was a couple of months ago. Are rev. E CPU:s out yet in models slower than the pricy 252? >>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. :-( The BIOS for their older Opteron boards haven't been updated in ages! >>I'm testing the Supermicro OEM boards instead, I will post a status >>report when I know more. > What model board do you have? H8DAE-B (AMD 8131/8111) H8DCE-B (nVidia CK804/IO4) On order, haven't got these yet. /Martin