Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 17:28:06 +0100 From: "Steven Hartland" <killing@multiplay.co.uk> To: <freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Athlon64 board with ECC support? Message-ID: <006e01c570fe$0d9882b0$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> References: <200506141610.j5EGAC8A016264@lurza.secnetix.de>
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I can recommend GA-7A8DW its a "cheap" dual proc opteron board
its not the absolute hottest performer due to the memory layout but it
makes for a very nice server / workstation. Works faultlessly with
BSD ( not tried the onboard SATA ) basic IDE works fine and has
PCI-X as well as AGP 8X so sounds just what u want.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Oliver Fromme" <olli@lurza.secnetix.de>
> That's interesting. I've seen several Athlon64 and Opteron
> systems, and it was my impression that the latter were all
> noisier and ran "hotter". But my impression could be wrong.
>
> It's also interesting to note that there are now plenty of
> Athlon64-based notebooks, but I haven't seen any Opteron
> notebook so far, which lead me to believe that the Athlon64
> has some power-saving features which the Opteron lacks.
> Does the Opteron have "PowerNow" or "Cool'n'Quiet"?
>
> Anyway, the price argument is still valid. This is for a
> private PC at home, so would like to keep the costs down as
> far as possible. I'll also try to re-use my old hardware,
> such as a plain old PCI graphics card, so I need neither
> AGP nor PCI-X oder PCI-E slots ... even a simple on-board
> graphics would be good (saves one slot). I'm not going to
> run demanding graphics applications on this machine. Also,
> I don't need a S-ATA controller, because I don't plan to
> buy new S-ATA drives. On-board (P-) ATA would be perfect.
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