Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 23:17:48 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: Kevin Van Maren <vanmaren@fast.cs.utah.edu>, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual-Athlon vs Dual-PIII ... opinions? Message-ID: <200008100617.XAA00544@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Aug 2000 23:25:47 -0300." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008092324120.54797-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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> > ASUS has this board: > > http://www.asus.com.tw/products/motherboard/pentiumpro/cur-dls/index.html > > anyone try it out/look at it? I did a brief evaluation of this board over the weekend. Street price looks to be about $750. You will need to remember that *all* of the RCC boards require registered ECC DIMMs, which are a bit pricey by comparison. The board will take 4GB (currently at about $2500/GB) tops, but the sockets are vertically aligned making this impractical in a 1U chassis. The board uses the ServerWorks LE ('low end') chipset, which makes it practical to use a single DIMM in cost-sensitive applications. Other minor shortcomings are the single onboard NIC, but compensated for by onboard video and SCSI. The board faces direct competition from Supermicro's equivalent product, and as Paul Saab mentioned, Tyan have a new offering due soon in this space which is optimised for 1U deployment, with angled DIMM sockets and a reduced PCI slot count (two 64-bit appropriately positioned for riser cards). At the higher end, we're also looking at a Tyan OEM board (the 2500) which they are currently supplying to SGI. This features the ServerWorks HE ('high end') chipset, takes 8 DIMMs, and features six 66MHz 64-bit PCI slots. As it takes slot-1 processors, this is very definitely a 2U system board. Regards, -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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