Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 13:58:27 +0200 From: Christian Brueffer <chris@unixpages.org> To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> Cc: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@zer0.org> Subject: Re: Tuning Gigabit Message-ID: <20030629115827.GA637@unixpages.org> In-Reply-To: <16126.18820.474512.227009@canoe.velocet.net> References: <20030628190036.0E06B37B405@hub.freebsd.org> <000f01c33dad$1595a0f0$e602a8c0@flatline> <16126.9805.829406.368426@canoe.velocet.net> <20030629003134.GV71533@klapaucius.zer0.org> <16126.18820.474512.227009@canoe.velocet.net>
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--6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 10:05:56PM -0400, David Gilbert wrote: > >>>>> "Gregory" =3D=3D Gregory Sutter <gsutter@zer0.org> writes: >=20 > Gregory> Will you please summarize the motherboard performance data so > Gregory> we know which boards to buy and which to skip? Thanks. >=20 > I've been working on such a summary. So far, the 'nvidia' chipset > boards have all tested badly. They couldn't be coaxed to pass more > than 100meg of traffic by any means we could discern. >=20 > The K7S5A has been our mainstay. Many of them are DOA, but the ones > that pass a couple weeks of cpuburn (see port) ... both on cpu and > memory tests ... work amazingly well. These boards are limited to 300 > megabit total thruput by being a 33Mhz 32bit PCI bus. >=20 > We've been testing mainly Athlon boards ... we havn't seen good P4 > boards ... but most of the boards we've had through for the P4 have > been workstation and not server boards. >=20 > The tiger tyan MPX is a dual board with 64 bit slots. I havn't had > time to fully benchmark it becuase we use it as a fairly primary > database server ... but it has generally been able to perform at or > near the top of the class. >=20 > There is an ASUS dusl board with 32-bit only slots and the AMD 76x > chipset (unfortunately it's far away and I can't look at it). it's > 32-bit slots run at 66Mhz and have extrodinarily good thruput. > AFAICT, it's currently out of production ... but the dual board on the > ASUS site looks very good. >=20 If you're talking about the ASUS A7M266-D, it actually has two 64bit PCI slots (powering a SCSI controller and a NIC here). It runs extremely well so far. - Christian --=20 Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+/tRjbHYXjKDtmC0RApEaAKCPSYu3YiDvY4Q2eo/oYXh+VsbjwQCdFWCm 6jHcWxK5U5KJ4D2KVn8IjMI= =/U/f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6c2NcOVqGQ03X4Wi--
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