Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:59:03 +0930 From: Shane Ambler <Shane@007Marketing.com> To: FreeBSD Mailing Lists <freebsd-performance@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dual-core CPU vs. very large cache Message-ID: <C0782487.3FFD9%Shane@007Marketing.com> In-Reply-To: <4450EC9B.1050101@rogers.com>
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On 28/4/2006 1:38, "Mike Jakubik" <mikej@rogers.com> wrote: > Martin Nilsson wrote: >> Mike Jakubik wrote: >>> As much as i love AMDs cpus, the availability of good server >>> motherboards and chipsets stinks, hopefully that will change when >>> socket AM2 comes out. >> >> That is an old myth: http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/ > > Its not an old myth. Find me a single cpu opteron board, with dual Intel > network cards (bge and nve suck ass) connected to a PCIe bus. Sorry, it > doesn't exist. You have your pick of the old AMD chipset, the crappy > Nvidia, or the unsupported ServerWorks, which still doesn't have PCIe. I haven't dug real deep for data but a casual look through the Intel's dual Xeon board specs shows they don't say where their network controllers are connected but some of their boards have an Intel ethernet controller as well as "one Marvell* Yukon* -EC 88E8050 PCI Express*" Sounds to me like Intel doesn't have ethernet controllers that run on PCIe regardless of the cpu
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