Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 01:05:41 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good SMP Motherboards Message-ID: <199911040005.BAA05773@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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David Scheidt wrote in list.freebsd-smp:
> On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Bruce Albrecht wrote:
> > I'm looking for a good SMP motherboard for $150 or less. Any
> > recommendations? If I want also onboard SCSI, what's a good, cheap MB
> > run?
>
> I like the giga-byte GA-6BXD.
"Me too!" :)
I had the MSI MS-6120 before, but it had a very bad memory
bandwidth, compared to the GA-6BXD. Although same chipset,
same DIMMs, same CPUs. I was surprised that the motherboard
design can make that much of a difference.
I didn't notice it very much in "normal" use (compiling etc.),
but memory-bound applications run much better with the
improved design of the Gigabyte board. The Seti@home client
runs about 50% faster on it!
Regards
Oliver
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