Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 13:19:27 -0700 From: "Jin Guojun [DSD]" <j_guojun@lbl.gov> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Cc: Charles Sprickman <spork@inch.com>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Feedback on Intel server SRMK2 Message-ID: <3D80F6CF.7E3933D5@lbl.gov> References: <3D7FD444.7B89FE2F@lbl.gov> <Pine.BSF.4.44.0209111957120.28660-100000@shell.inch.com> <20020911224757.A58759@panzer.kdm.org>
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"Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 19:59:28 -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Jin Guojun [DSD] wrote: > > > > > Have not used this. For $300, you can get dual AMD or single P4 M/B + 1 CPU. > > > > Right, but I'm needing the whole machine, most specifically the box. A > > similar new 1U of decent quality will be about 3x's more cash. > > > > > Intel E7500 chipset does not have such bug, but the memory bandwidth (545) is > > > much less > > > then the ServerWork chipset (672 MB/s) when compared with same XEON CPU. > > > > Cool, it does have a ServerWorks chipset. I guess that's a good thing. > > The chipset (ServerSet III LE) on that board is fine. I doubt it has the > 672MB/sec memory bandwidth Jin is referring to, though. I think he's > talking about the ServerWorks Grand Champion chipset. Yes, this is the one SuperMicro P4DL6 uses. Sorry for the slappy note. > The memory bandwidth on the III LE chipset will be pretty good, though. This one has about 290 MB/s memory bandwidth. We use this one with 933MHz CPU to capture headers (similar ro tcpdump) at 1.7 Gbit/s dual direction traffic. > From looking at the hardware (Adaptec Ultra160 SCSI, dual Intel 10/100 > nics), I think it would make an excellent FreeBSD box. > > The only issue I have with the Intel rackmount boxes I've seen is the case > design. The drive carriers are sometimes a bit cheezy, and the cases > themselves aren't always as well thought out as they could be. > > Ken > -- > Kenneth Merry > ken@kdm.org -- /-------------- Jin Guojun ------------ v -- Internet: j_guojun@lbl.gov ---\ | Imaging & Distributed Computing | Usenet: ucbvax!j_guojun@lbl.gov | | Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory | Bitnet: -- | | 50B-2239, Berkeley, CA 94720 - jin%george.lbl.gov@Csa3.LBL.Gov | \--Ph#:(510) 486-7531 + Fax: 486-6363 --^--http://www-itg.lbl.gov/ITG.html-/ Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is mystery. Today is a gift, that's why we call it 'present'. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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