From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Mar 30 20:44:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from athena.lightningone.net (athena.lightningone.net [12.34.104.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8552937B7D4 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 20:44:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john@athena.lightningone.net) Received: from localhost (john@localhost) by athena.lightningone.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA56078; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 23:50:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from john@athena.lightningone.net) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 23:49:59 -0500 (EST) From: Essenz Consulting To: Doug Barton Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Motherboards for 2u Rack mounts In-Reply-To: <38E427B1.F735A3DD@gorean.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The only problem with the L440GX+ is getting them. There are real hard to find now since Intel is phasing them out, intro the 820 and 840 chip boards. About 3 weeks ago I treid to get a hold of 4 L440GX+'s, I must of called about 10 distributors, nobody had it. As for a good motherboard, as soon as all the bugs are ironed out with the Supermicro PIIIDM3, thats a powerfull board. The 840 chipset blows away 440BX/GX based boards. Not to mention 4 Gb of memory support! -john On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Doug Barton wrote: > up@3.am wrote: > > > > On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson wrote: > > > > > Well I got my dream come true... I have been assigned to build some > > > servers based on server based motherboards. (sounds kinda corny). These > > > servers are going to be housed in 2u rack mount cases. Since I have > > > never had the luxury or the funding to accomplish this in the past I > > > never looked at the hardware. Now I am looking and I feel totally > > > unprepared on what is the best and best supported motherbaord to chose > > > to put these into service with FreeBSD. > > > > I've been happy with Intel L440GX+'s, but they ain't cheap... > > I second that. You can even change the BIOS options from the serial > console. Mondo cool. > > Doug > -- > "So, the cows were part of a dream that dreamed itself into > existence? Is that possible?" asked the student incredulously. > The master simply replied, "Mu." > > > 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-hardware" in the body of the message