Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 13:21:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Supported Hardware Message-ID: <199806301121.NAA07518@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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In list.freebsd-questions you wrote (30 Jun 1998 10:45:19 +0200):
> I would like to upgrade my existing FreeBSD machine to the latest and
> greatest and can't find a source that can tell me what PII
> motherboards/chipsets are supported. Am interested in PII dual
> processor support and if not dual what PII single processor hardware is
> supported. Hope you can point me in the right direction - thanks in
> advance.
The "latest and greatest" should be a quad Xeon-400 on a
450NX mainboard. ;-) (SCNR)
But no, I'm afraid I don't know whether this would work with
FreeBSD. The latest proven-to-work hardware is a PII-400
("Deschutes"). I think there are dual boards for this out
there, based on intel's BX chipset.
If you want as high-end as possible and don't care much about
money, you might want to wait a few weeks and buy one of the
above-mentioned Xeon boxes. Intel's new Xeon supports up to
four CPUs (while Deschutes and other PIIs support only two),
and it has 512 Kb or 1 Mb of 2nd level cache which is running
at full speed (other PIIs: only half of that). The Xeon was
presented to the public yesterday.
(Finally a worthy server CPU replacement for the old PPro?
Well, let's see what intel broke this time...)
Regards
Oliver
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