From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 27 09:23:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3319F16A4CE for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:23:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from salvador.pacific.net.sg (salvador.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 06EA743D54 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:23:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oceanare@pacific.net.sg) Received: (qmail 28898 invoked from network); 27 Apr 2004 16:23:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO maxwell6.pacific.net.sg) (203.120.90.212) by salvador with SMTP; 27 Apr 2004 16:23:30 -0000 Received: from pacific.net.sg ([210.24.202.28]) by maxwell6.pacific.net.sg with ESMTP id <20040427162330.MIMU1186.maxwell6.pacific.net.sg@pacific.net.sg>; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 00:23:30 +0800 Message-ID: <408E87F2.3010409@pacific.net.sg> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 00:18:58 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky Organization: oceanare pte ltd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040409 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Marc G. Fournier" References: <20040427123236.P60328@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20040427123236.P60328@ganymede.hub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD Server comparable to Intel/Xeon ... ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:23:33 -0000 Hi, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > I'm looking at picking up the following: > > Intel Technology Server > Chassis Intel SC1300 1U Rack > MainBoard: Intel SE7501WV2SCSI > Ram memory: 4 x 1 GB > Processor: 2 x Xeon 3.06 Ghz > Discos Duros: 3x Seagate ST336607KLC > Intel: SRCZR <- Zero Channel RAID, does that exist for the AMD platforms? > CD-ROM: 52x > Floppy: 3.5" > Monitor, Mouse & Keyboard: Not Included > > > Now, I've been hearing alot of how AMD tends to perform better, but I have > zero experience with AMD ... I'm curious as to what those with experience > with AMD would be considered: > > 1. equivalent in power to the Xeon 3.06Ghz It depends of how much you want to spend. We use Tyan Thunder K7 boards with Athlon MP CPUs. There are different versions available with LAN und SCSI on board. The Thunder K8 family is for the Opteron CPU. Some of the machines run FreeBSD 4.x and 5.2. > 2. a rackmount/motherboard they would recommend for a server The Thunder family is designed for this. Erich