From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Nov 3 16: 5:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE9EB15132 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 16:05:44 -0800 (PST) (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 BAA05773 for freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 01:05:41 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 01:05:41 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199911040005.BAA05773@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good SMP Motherboards Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: freebsd-smp@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-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message