From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu May 27 17:49:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from george.lbl.gov (george.lbl.gov [131.243.2.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B28A914F26 for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 17:49:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jin@george.lbl.gov) Received: (from jin@localhost) by george.lbl.gov (8.9.3/8.9.2) id RAA06623; Thu, 27 May 1999 17:49:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 17:49:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199905280049.RAA06623@george.lbl.gov> From: jin@george.lbl.gov To: vince@nycrc.net, zanewestover@usa.net Subject: Re: AMD k6-2 400 Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 05:32:18PM -0700, Zane Westover wrote: > Hello, > I am searching for the ultimate motherboard for a small server I am > building. I have been given an AMD K6-2 400 MHz to work with so I need a > Socket 7 board. I am also interested in on-board video and sound (if anyone > knows of any) and I am also researching overclocking. Could you please resond > with a few ideas of motherboards? If anyone has an AWESOME setup, or knows of > one, I could be willing to purchase another processor. > Thanks. > Zane K6 II/III family is not able to overclock much, but Celeron does. You may look at web site: www-didc.lbl.gov/~jin/performance.pen.ps Page 9-10 for some details. Be carefully the data in the parentheses to ensure that over overclocking could cause your system problem. We do overclock our cluster 1TB servers, and have not seen any problem. The most amazing thing in FreeBSD is the "make buildworld". It is a great stablility testing tool for testing reliability for CPU/memory system. If your system can pass "cd /usr/src; make buildworld", this system is almost quanranteed the CPU and memory sub-system to work. I haven't seen any failure after a system passed buildworld. If you do not require high quality video and sound, you may choice the on-board option, but it may not be a wise choice for a server. All the new motherboard has a AGP slot, and the AGP video adapter can be priced from $25 to $2500. Therefore, it is not really beautiful thing to have on-board video, and in many cases that servers needs no video card. -Jin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message