From owner-freebsd-smp Fri Oct 11 12:14: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D2C237B401 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 12:14:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from posgate.acis.com.au (posgate.acis.com.au [203.14.230.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08F1143E9E for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 12:14:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (dialup-1.acis.com.au [203.14.230.80] (may be forged)) by posgate.acis.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9BJE1029041 for ; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 05:14:02 +1000 Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (tenring.andymac.org [203.9.107.238]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9BBGiI42758 for ; Fri, 11 Oct 2002 21:16:44 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 21:15:18 +1100 (edt) From: Andrew MacIntyre To: Subject: Re: Abit SMP boards under FreeBSD (was Re: dnetc on xeon) In-Reply-To: <20021010100823.0a1e00ad.michaelossareh@onetel.net.uk> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Michael Ossareh wrote: > I believe the Abit VP6 and BP6 are quite similar and the chipset runs > very hot when in SMP mode, so since its not a proper server board you > might want to invest in some active cooling for your chipset (usually > just has a green heat sink on it). I think the VP6 uses the VIA [56]94 chipset, whereas the BP6 uses the Intel 440BX chipset - 2 very different animals. I remember some mail about problems with SMP with that VIA chipset, which I kept for a while but deleted only recently. -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@pcug.org.au | Belconnen ACT 2616 Web: http://www.andymac.org/ | Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message