From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 30 04:22:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA00493 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 04:22:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA00392 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 04:22:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA07518 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 13:21:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 13:21:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199806301121.NAA07518@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Supported Hardware Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18-61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message