From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Mar 31 6:55:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from athena.lightningone.net (athena.lightningone.net [12.34.104.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C30F37B919; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 06:55:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john@athena.lightningone.net) Received: from localhost (john@localhost) by athena.lightningone.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA57790; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:01:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from john@athena.lightningone.net) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:01:03 -0500 (EST) From: Essenz Consulting To: Mike Smith Cc: Doug Barton , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Motherboards for 2u Rack mounts In-Reply-To: <200003310453.UAA00720@mass.cdrom.com> 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 You dont have to use RDRAM in the PIIIDM3, you can use unbuffered ecc sdram. Kentron Technologies makes superior quality 512 Mb and 1 Gb SDRAM modules, which I have used with the PIIIDM3, And with that setup, the thing flew! Yeah, RDRAM is expensive, but it is the new technology, the specs on DDR and RDRAM are insane... On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Mike Smith 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! > > Not so sure about that; RDRAM is too expensive, the Rambus:SDRAM bridge > is slow and doesn't do ECC - nice workstation board, but a terrible > choice for a serber. > > -- > \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith > \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message