Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 17:30:19 +0200 From: Thinker Rix <thinkerix@rocketmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Motherbard chipset & CPU compatibility Message-ID: <527BB20B.9040702@rocketmail.com>
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Hello all! I want to buy a new server and run FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p11 on it (64bit) I am interested in 2 different solutions: A) Intel Socket 1155 Motherboard: Supermicro X9SCM-F (http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C202_C204/X9SCM-F.cfm) CPU: Pentium, 3rd generation Core i3 or Xeon E3-1200 v2 Onboard NICs: Intel® 82579LM and 82574L Supermicro's compatibility list proclaims compatibility as of: FreeBSD 8.1 (http://www.supermicro.com/support/resources/OS/C204.cfm) B) Intel Socket 1150 Motherboard: X10SLL-F (http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C220/X10SLL-F.cfm) CPU: Pentium, 4th generation Core i3 or Xeon E3-1200 v3 Onboard NICs: Intel® i217LM & 1x Intel® i210AT Supermicro's compatibility list proclaims compatibility as of: FreeBSD 9.1 (http://www.supermicro.com/support/resources/OS/C222.cfm) So according to the information provided by Supermicro, only Solution A should be compatible with FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p11 Questions: 1. Someone has told me, that I can use even brand new CPUs/Chipsets on the old FreeBSD version; only new cutting-edge CPU features might not be supported, but the system should be running (due to general i386-64bit compatibility?!). Is that true? Could I use solution B), too then? 2. How about the NICs of both solutions, are they supported by FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p11? Thank you for any advice! Regards Thinker Rix P.S. Please do not advise me to just use newer versions of FreeBSD - the reason for me using this outdated version is that I am bound to a special-purpose distribution that is based on FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p11
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