From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Nov 9 17:13:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7449437B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 17:13:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from cx443070b ([24.0.36.170]) by femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20001110011306.ZKTC19780.femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com@cx443070b>; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 17:13:06 -0800 Message-ID: <006301c04ab3$b70121c0$aa240018@cx443070b> From: "Jeremiah Gowdy" To: "Chris Dillon" , "KT Sin" Cc: References: Subject: Re: via chipset and SMP Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 17:15:29 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > I am thinking of getting a dual coppermine board with VIA chipset. > > Has anyone tried running FreeBSD SMP on such boards? Is the VIA's > > SMP chipset any good? > > Even their non-SMP chipsets are crap. It blew my mind that they had > the ability to create an SMP chipset at all, let alone make one that > might work. My counter opinion would simply be, I have ran FreeBSD on my Tyan Tiger 133A motherboard which uses the Via Apollo Pro 133A chipset with Dual Pentium III 450s. They aren't the best performing boards out there, however, they are pretty stable in my experience, both Athlon and PIII. Add that to the fact that they support the latest tech like AGP4X and UDMA100. Their chipsets do lack a little performance, but not so much as to make me wish I had another board. Dual Pentium IIIs are still Dual Pentium IIIs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message