Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1998 21:25:49 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Irving Popovetsky <irving@bokonon.logiclink.com> Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quad motherboards? Message-ID: <199812200525.VAA41483@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 19 Dec 1998 02:54:01 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812190242290.36208-100000@bokonon.logiclink.com>
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> > Since the Quad Processor phenomenon is now coming back in style only with > the release of the PII Xeon chips, it seems like most of the major > motherboard manufacturers have just now managed to release dual processor > motherboards, but are slow with the quads. > > Intel, of course, does make one, its called the SC450NX .... you can > oooh at it: > http://developer.intel.com/design/servers/sc450nx/index.htm They have another, larger boardset. > Frankly, it kind of frightens me. Knowing intel's track record of very > hot processors, and seeing 4 Xeons all bunched together like that makes me > think of some kind of hellfire-deathtrap. Computers have come > full-circle, I guess. Again we have come to a day when you have to point a big > fan at your computer. If you buy the chassis as well as the boardset from Intel, you get a pile of nice ducting and lots of fans with it. The AD450NX system here has six of them, with onboard temperature sensing feeding back into a speed controller. (There are 3 more fans cooling the I/O board on the other side.) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the messagehelp
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