From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Mar 31 6:14:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from richard2.pil.net (richard2.pil.net [207.8.164.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7B36F37B652 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 06:14:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from up@3.am) Received: (qmail 89908 invoked by uid 1825); 31 Mar 2000 14:14:48 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 31 Mar 2000 14:14:48 -0000 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 09:14:48 -0500 (EST) From: X-Sender: up@richard2.pil.net To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Motherboards for 2u Rack mounts In-Reply-To: <81677.954495594@verdi.nethelp.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 sthaug@nethelp.no wrote: > > 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. I'm checking that site out, but it is, without a doubt, the most hideously over-bannerized website I have ever seen, to the point where Netscape can almost not handle it...they even make it difficult to get past the ads with Lynx...ugh James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor up@3.am http://3.am ========================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message