Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 18:19:13 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: neil@synthcom.com (Neil Bradley), freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quad-PIII...exists? Message-ID: <199909160119.SAA12057@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Sep 1999 17:07:52 PDT." <199909160007.RAA41942@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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>> >> > ASUS doesn't make a dual-PIII motherboard yet, and IBM has a >> >> > Quad-PIII server...but IBM is over-priced, IMHO... >> >> >> >> For dual PIII, go for the Supermicro. I've found so many marginal hardware >> >> problems with Tyan and Asus that I'd never consider them again. I've had >> >> excellent luck with all of my Supermicro boards. I don't know if they make >> >> quad boards (though they'd be expensive no matter where you get them >> >> from), but they make a line of very solid dual CPU motherboards. >> > >> >Humm... and my experience here is similiar, but in the opposite direction, >> >I won't touch a Supermicro or Tyan board, but ASUS has been rock solid >> >for us, sans occasional problems with BIOS code. >> >> ...and while we're all saying conflicting things, I've had *zero* problems >> with SMP Tyan motherboards (and we're talking sample size >50 motherboards). > >You call $10K worth of returned memory 0 problems.... :-) It was the wrong type of memory for that amount of chip loading for that (Intel) chipset. It had nothing to do with the specific motherboard. I've had no problems with those systems or any others that I've built when using the correct memory. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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