Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 09:23:03 -0700 (MST) From: Kevin Van Maren <vanmaren@fast.cs.utah.edu> To: armin@metzelkueche.tabu.uni-bonn.de Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fast/reliable SMP hardware Message-ID: <200103071623.JAA12142@fast.cs.utah.edu>
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You absolutely want to get a board with the ServerWorks chipset. Unfortunatly, it is the only game in town right now. ServerWorks *requires* registered ECC Dimms. 64bit/66MHz PCI does wonders for Gigabit Ethernet. Most RAID controllers are 64-bit PCI cards as well. Plus being able to go to 4GB of ECC SDRAM is nice with memory prices so low. I've heard the Tyan Thunder 2500 works well with FreeBSD, but is a little hard to track down, so the other Tyan should be fine (but only has 4 DIMMs instead of 8, and 256MB DIMMs are a lot cheaper than 512 or 1024MB DIMMs; still 1GB is probably enough). Most "servers" from Compaq, Dell, IBM, etc (even Intel) use ServerWorks, in case you decide to go pre-packaged. Asus also has several serverworks boards. The VIA (dual) chipsets offer very mediocre performance under SMP. You'd be better off getting a 440BX/GX board (some issues there with the 133MHz bus and AGP). Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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