Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 01:24:47 -0800 From: bow <bow@bow.net> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au Subject: Re: ECS K7S5A? Message-ID: <20011208012446.A76747@bow.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OS2.4.32.0112081142370.307-100000@tenring.andymac.org> References: <20011206165604.A62961@bow.net> <Pine.OS2.4.32.0112081142370.307-100000@tenring.andymac.org>
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ECC? Does that make a huge difference? Do you have any suggestions for a good motherboard to support a AMD 1800? It's going to be for a mail server that handles around 100,000 messages a day. I am going to be using DDR RAM, mostlikely 512MB. Does anyone run a AMD 1800/1900 on a heavily loaded FreeBSD box? What motherboard are you using? -bow On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 11:51:43AM +1100, Andrew MacIntyre wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, bow wrote: > > > So far I've heard great stuff about the ECS K7S5A motherboard, but most of > > of the reviews I've seen is using Windows or Linux. Does anyone know how this > > board/SiS735 chipset performs on FreeBSD? I don't care for the onboard stuff, > > like sound and the network card. It's going to be a server, so I don't need > > sound. And I use Intel Pro 100BaseT network cards, so I don't the onboard > > network functions. > > I'm writing this on a K7S5A (running OS/2, but I've booted FreeBSD 4.2 > on it with no probs). I'm very pleased with it, especially given the > price (AU$143 w/out onboard NIC). > > It's less attractive as a server though, as this board doesn't support ECC > (though I think the SiS735 chipset does). > > There are rumours that Abit is going to release a SiS745 (DDR only, > PC-2700) based board which (if it actually appears and supports ECC) might > be more attractive for this purpose. > > -- > Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." > E-mail: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au | Snail: PO Box 370 > andymac@pcug.org.au | Belconnen ACT 2616 > Web: http://www.andymac.org/ | Australia > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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