From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 18 2:10: 3 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 18 02:10:01 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.rdc3.on.home.com (mail2.rdc3.on.home.com [24.2.9.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5393137B400 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 02:10:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from home.com ([24.114.163.66]) by mail2.rdc3.on.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20001218101000.BYIL1385.mail2.rdc3.on.home.com@home.com>; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 02:10:00 -0800 Message-ID: <3A3DE278.9020800@home.com> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 05:10:00 -0500 From: Dennis Jun User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001108 Netscape6/6.0 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christopher Farley Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: intel vs. AMD References: <3A3C0A8A.D653C28@ifour.com.br> <20001217030135.029A75BD7@clyde.goodleaf.net> <20001218004522.C25708@northernbrewer.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christopher Farley wrote: > J.Goodleaf (john@goodleaf.net) wrote: > >> If you need/want a dual proc machine, you must go Intel. > > > If I'm not mistaken, this is a hardware limitation, not a FreeBSD > limitation... Dual processor AMD motherboards aren't made yet. It's a > shame nobody will take a risk on a dual-processor AMD server MB. > I believe it's not the fact that the AMD can't handle dual support, it's just the motherboards: specifically, the chipset. However AMD is planning to come out with the 730 chipset (I think) mid next year to support dual cpus. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message