Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 16:25:27 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: neil@synthcom.com (Neil Bradley), freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quad-PIII...exists? Message-ID: <199909152325.QAA11720@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Sep 1999 15:52:30 PDT." <199909152252.PAA41354@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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>> > ASUS doesn't make a dual-PIII motherboard yet, and IBM has a >> > Quad-PIII server...but IBM is over-priced, IMHO... >> >> For dual PIII, go for the Supermicro. I've found so many marginal hardware >> problems with Tyan and Asus that I'd never consider them again. I've had >> excellent luck with all of my Supermicro boards. I don't know if they make >> quad boards (though they'd be expensive no matter where you get them >> from), but they make a line of very solid dual CPU motherboards. > >Humm... and my experience here is similiar, but in the opposite direction, >I won't touch a Supermicro or Tyan board, but ASUS has been rock solid >for us, sans occasional problems with BIOS code. ...and while we're all saying conflicting things, I've had *zero* problems with SMP Tyan motherboards (and we're talking sample size >50 motherboards). -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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