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Date:      Thu, 30 Mar 2000 20:53:57 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Essenz Consulting <john@athena.lightningone.net>
Cc:        Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Motherboards for 2u Rack mounts 
Message-ID:  <200003310453.UAA00720@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 30 Mar 2000 23:49:59 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.10003302346360.56074-100000@athena.lightningone.net> 

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> As for a good motherboard, as soon as all the bugs are ironed out with the
> Supermicro PIIIDM3, thats a powerfull board. The 840 chipset blows away
> 440BX/GX based boards. Not to mention 4 Gb of memory support!

Not so sure about that; RDRAM is too expensive, the Rambus:SDRAM bridge 
is slow and doesn't do ECC - nice workstation board, but a terrible 
choice for a serber.

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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