From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 21 10: 6:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from athena.lightningone.net (athena.lightningone.net [12.34.104.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E766037B731; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:06:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@essenz.com) Received: from localhost (john@localhost) by athena.lightningone.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA66729; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:13:05 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from john@essenz.com) X-Authentication-Warning: athena.lightningone.net: john owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:13:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Essenz Consulting X-Sender: john@athena.lightningone.net To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel 840 Chipset Discontinue In-Reply-To: <20000721104535.A30468@panzer.kdm.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Apparently it affects all boards that the Intel 840 chipset. Yeah, it does suck that the 370DLx boards dont have AGP, but for a server you can still find old PCI video cards. On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: > On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 12:31:58 -0400, Essenz Consulting wrote: > > I was told by several of my distributors that all motherboards based off > > of the Intel 840 chipset are being discontinued. That means the Supermicro > > PIIDM3 and PIIIDME, and any other 840 board. > > Are you sure they don't just mean any 840 board that uses SDRAM? > > It looks like Supermicro has a RAMBUS 840 board on their web page now: > > http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/MotherBoards/840/PIIIDR3a.htm > > > Supermicro has two new boards, 370DL3 and 370DLE. Identical in specs to > > the 840 boards, but using some kind of "ServerWork LE" chipset. However, I > > have also been hearing bad news about these boards as well. > > Not quite identical. They don't have AGP, which makes it difficult to > get graphics boards. (If you want to use it for a workstation. Most > graphics boards don't come in plain PCI anymore.) > > Ken > -- > Kenneth Merry > ken@kdm.org > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message