Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 18:08:41 +0100 From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org, marc@wiz.com Subject: Re: Recommendations for a motherboard Message-ID: <E1ISFPl-00031Z-Va@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> In-Reply-To: <20070903155345.GA17292@wiz.com>
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> My 6.2 server is having problems so I am urgently searching for a > replacement motherboard. I may need to get the board ASAP. > Searching the web has not come up with any list of boards to try. I use this: http://www.tyan.com/archive/products/html/thunderk8spro.html It is absolutely flawless - and I have had reports from people that the more recent versions are just as good. It also comes with decent NIC's on board (Broadcom for gigbit, Intel for 100 meg) and there is a version with inbuilt SCSI, though I plugin an Adaptec card myself. I bought the board from recommendations on the FreeBSD AMD64 list after having a number of problems with an MSI server board. I think the only thing that specific board does not support on your list of requirements is the dual core processor support - I run two single core processors in mine. The later revisions do support dual core though, but I can't vouch for thhem personally. On the other hand they should be just as good as the S2882 from the same manufacturer, and Tyan have a good rep. -pcf.
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