Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 11:35:23 +0200 From: Martin Nilsson <martin@gneto.com> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What kind of MotherBoard is better for FreeBsd and linux? Message-ID: <42AEA4DB.7020604@gneto.com> In-Reply-To: <20050613222428.GA3835@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <99389684.20050610003512@molecon.ru> <20050613222428.GA3835@dragon.NUXI.org>
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David O'Brien wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 12:35:12AM +0400, Oleg Rusanov wrote: > >>What kind of MotherBoard for Amd64 OPteron 252 or 264 processors is >>better for FreeBsd and linux? >> >>----------------Amd64 OPteron 264 MBs------------- >>MSI >> K8D Master3 (MS-9161) >> 2.0 eATX AMD-8131 Supports up to processor stepping: E6 > > > This board is nice in that it has 12 DIMM slots - so you can easily get > 12gb or 24gb in a 2P machine. Uses the AMD8100 chipset. It is very picky with the memories on the CPU that have 8 slots. MSI only supports 8 dimms on that CPU at 266MHz, 6*dimm at 333MHz. I managed to get it to work at 400MHz with 6* Samsung handpicked dimms (bga chips) but YMMV, so don't count on it! MSI:s support is slow and terrible - you get what you pay for! Also IPMI is not availabe on this board, making it not that useful as a server in a remote location. I'm testing the Supermicro OEM boards instead, I will post a status report when I know more. /Martin
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