From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 7 3:28:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from prg.traveller.cz (prg.traveller.cz [193.85.2.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 364F837B405 for ; Sat, 7 Jul 2001 03:28:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mime@traveller.cz) Received: from prg.traveller.cz (prg.traveller.cz [193.85.2.2]) by prg.traveller.cz (EUnet.1022902037-17/pukvis) with ESMTP id f67ASIQ31526 for ; Sat, 7 Jul 2001 12:28:19 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 12:28:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Michal Mertl To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD Athlon MP & Tyan Thunder K7 (for server ?) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was also considering buying one for server (instead of ASUS CUR-DLS and 2xPIII) but am a bit afraid of two things. The Onboard NICs are 3c920 which should be compatible with 3c905C-TX but in some other post in this group or on stable I've read they don't work. Well I might easily buy additional NICs that's now big problem only wasted HW. The other (and more serious for me) is the problem with power supplies. For this board you should get quality 400W (in my case 2x) and that's difficult to get (at least for rackmountable cases). Also I don't like the heat Athlon processors produce - in case processor fan stops working you need to shutdown very fast else the processor is damaged. What some of you server guys think about my concerns? -- Michal Mertl mime@traveller.cz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message