Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 03:01:44 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Martin Nilsson <martin@gneto.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What kind of MotherBoard is better for FreeBsd and linux? Message-ID: <20050614100144.GA1103@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <42AEA4DB.7020604@gneto.com> References: <99389684.20050610003512@molecon.ru> <20050613222428.GA3835@dragon.NUXI.org> <42AEA4DB.7020604@gneto.com>
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On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:35:23AM +0200, Martin Nilsson wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: > >On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 12:35:12AM +0400, Oleg Rusanov wrote: > > > >>What kind of MotherBoard for Amd64 OPteron 252 or 264 processors is > >>better for FreeBsd and linux? > >> > >>----------------Amd64 OPteron 264 MBs------------- > >>MSI > >>K8D Master3 (MS-9161) > >>2.0 eATX AMD-8131 Supports up to processor stepping: E6 > > > >This board is nice in that it has 12 DIMM slots - so you can easily get > >12gb or 24gb in a 2P machine. Uses the AMD8100 chipset. > > It is very picky with the memories on the CPU that have 8 slots. MSI > only supports 8 dimms on that CPU at 266MHz, 6*dimm at 333MHz. It depends on the revision of the Opteron used. Rev.E CPU's should handle 8*DDR333 fine. > MSI:s support is slow and terrible - you get what you pay for! Agreed! They also have a nasty habit of end-of-lifeing their Opteron boards. In fact you can't even navigate to the MS-9161 product page on the MSI USA web site. :-( > I'm testing the Supermicro OEM boards instead, I will post a status > report when I know more. What model board do you have? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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