From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Mar 30 20:50:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mg128-098.ricochet.net [204.179.128.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FE0837B968 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 20:50:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA00720; Thu, 30 Mar 2000 20:53:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200003310453.UAA00720@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Essenz Consulting Cc: Doug Barton , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Motherboards for 2u Rack mounts In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 Mar 2000 23:49:59 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 20:53:57 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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! Not so sure about that; RDRAM is too expensive, the Rambus:SDRAM bridge is slow and doesn't do ECC - nice workstation board, but a terrible choice for a serber. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message