Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:21:47 -0400 From: Richard Cownie <tich@ma.ikos.com> To: "Steven P. Donegan" <donegan@quick.net>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Motherboard options Message-ID: <99071213404700.05073@par28.ma.ikos.com> References: <Pine.BSI.3.91.990709155433.8727D-100000@oldnews.quick.net>
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On Fri, 09 Jul 1999, Steven P. Donegan wrote: > What options are there for quad processor motherboards that are known to > successfully run FreeBSD SMP? Thanks in advance for any pointers. > > Steven P. Donegan > Sr. Engineer > WANG Global The Intel SC450NX is a good and reasonably cheap 4-way Xeon system. I have FreeBSD (-current) running on two systems, the larger has 4 x Xeon-500MHz, 4GB DRAM, and 6 x 9GB disk - total cost ~ $20K (from www.sagelec.com). With only 1 disk and 256MB DRAM the price is $9800. Note that FreeBSD doesn't like the onboard SCSI chip, you need to use an Adaptec SCSI card. A 4-way system needs hefty power supplies and cooling, so as far as I know there aren't any simple "quad processor motherboards" (unless you go way back to the 200MHz PentiumPro and Socket8 - but this would be slower than 2 x PentiumIII-500MHz). Richard Cownie (tich@ma.ikos.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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