From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 7 12:31:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.threeh.com (ct515603-b.lafayt1.in.home.com [24.22.253.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D4BD37B406 for ; Sat, 7 Jul 2001 12:31:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rlucas@solidcomputing.com) Received: from localhost (rlucas@localhost) by mx2.threeh.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f67JVSI04967; Sat, 7 Jul 2001 14:31:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rlucas@solidcomputing.com) Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 14:31:28 -0500 (EST) From: Richard Lucas X-X-Sender: To: Michal Mertl Cc: Subject: Re: AMD Athlon MP & Tyan Thunder K7 (for server ?) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20010707142524.C4950-100000@mx2.threeh.com> 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 On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Michal Mertl wrote: > 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. From my understanding this board recommends/requires a 460W power supply. -Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message