From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Mar 31 1:40: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [158.36.41.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 98C9F37B50C for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 01:39:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sthaug@nethelp.no) Received: (qmail 81679 invoked by uid 1001); 31 Mar 2000 09:39:54 +0000 (GMT) To: john@athena.lightningone.net Cc: Doug@gorean.org, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Motherboards for 2u Rack mounts From: sthaug@nethelp.no In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Mar 2000 23:49:59 -0500 (EST)" References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.34.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 11:39:54 +0200 Message-ID: <81677.954495594@verdi.nethelp.no> 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! It may be the case that the 840 chipset *with RDRAM* blows away 440BX/GX based boards. But see www.tomshardware.com for some interesting comparisons. A bit Windows-oriented, but still interesting. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message