Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 02:38:18 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Matt White <mwhite@myrile.madriver.k12.oh.us> Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ServerWorks ServerSet III HE Chipset Message-ID: <200010050938.e959cIH25740@netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200010031640.MAA11425@myrile.madriver.k12.oh.us>
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Matt White wrote: > FreeBSD SMP List; > > I'm looking to build a new FreeBSD 4.1 server to replace our 3.5 server > that's getting beat to death every day. (And I must say, it responds to > the beating quite well!) > > Right now I'm looking at possible boards and chipsets to use for a new > server, and I'm wondering if anyone has any experence, good or bad, with > the ServerWorks chipsets. I've searched the mailing list archives and > can't seem to find an answer. (But I did notice that this question comes > up every now and then!) > > In particular I'm looking at the SuperMicro 370DL3 or 370DE6 boards. One > has the HE chipset, the other has the LE chipset. > > Any comments, good or bad? I cannot comment on the supermicro, but I have a Tyan Thunder 2500 which is based on the RCC HE chipset. It is a very sweet board, and goes like the proverbial bat out of hell. I believe Paul Saab had one of them with 2x733MHz cpus beating a 4x550MHz Xeon system at buildworld time from MFS ramdisks. The Quad Xeons had 1MB cache and its motherboard was also RCC based but a slightly older chipset. The Xeon had 256 bit wide memory compared to the 128 bit wide RCC HE chipset with PIII coppermine cpus. I think the Tyan board had two banks and could interleave for greater burst bandwidth. Anyway, for bang-per-buck, it was very impressive alongside a quad Xeon monster. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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