From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Sep 15 17: 8:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F5D414C86 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 17:08:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA41942; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 17:07:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199909160007.RAA41942@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: Quad-PIII...exists? In-Reply-To: <199909152325.QAA11720@implode.root.com> from David Greenman at "Sep 15, 1999 04:25:27 pm" To: dg@root.com Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 17:07:52 -0700 (PDT) Cc: neil@synthcom.com (Neil Bradley), freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >> > ASUS doesn't make a dual-PIII motherboard yet, and IBM has a > >> > Quad-PIII server...but IBM is over-priced, IMHO... > >> > >> For dual PIII, go for the Supermicro. I've found so many marginal hardware > >> problems with Tyan and Asus that I'd never consider them again. I've had > >> excellent luck with all of my Supermicro boards. I don't know if they make > >> quad boards (though they'd be expensive no matter where you get them > >> from), but they make a line of very solid dual CPU motherboards. > > > >Humm... and my experience here is similiar, but in the opposite direction, > >I won't touch a Supermicro or Tyan board, but ASUS has been rock solid > >for us, sans occasional problems with BIOS code. > > ...and while we're all saying conflicting things, I've had *zero* problems > with SMP Tyan motherboards (and we're talking sample size >50 motherboards). You call $10K worth of returned memory 0 problems.... :-) -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message