Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 14:38:16 -0500 From: Mikel <mikel@ocsny.com> To: up@3.am Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gigabyte Athlon motherboard Message-ID: <387A3527.B51CCD2E@ocsny.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001101352030.38204-100000@richard2.pil.net>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------4A599A108F0FD269D38B3427 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit We have several different platforms deployed...from Super7 AMDs (dfa and msi boards), to dual i400s on ASUS...The problem I've run accross again and yet again is as soon as I find a working config the board goes out of production faster than my small shop can stablize them...Another issue, in the area of smp boards is that there isn't much scalability in the generic types...I mean most board come in dual flavors but that's it...If you'd like the server to some day have 8 cpus...there isn't a nice modular way of accomplishing this...may as well fork out the dough and get a sun...or some other big enterprise box...don't know bout all of you but I for one would favor a box the can grow with us as the need arises...just my $0.02... up@3.am wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Rick Hamell wrote: > > > > I'm considering a Gigabyte GA-71X with an AMD Athlon CPU. > > > It will run *exclusively* FreeBSD, and the dealer has said me that > > > they have observed stability problems with Windows. > > > > > > Does this CPU/motherboard work well with FreeBSD? I would > > > use a 500 or 700 MHz CPU. > > > > I've exerienced about an 8% loss on these motherboards due to > > minor power surges alone, not to mention a multitude of small problems. I > > highly suggest you go with Soltek or Asus, both work great under FreeBSD > > and Windows if now problems. > > As long as we're on the subject of motherboards for FreeBSD, I'd love some > feedback on higher-end server boards with integrated SCSI and Ethernet, as > well as console redirection to the serial ports. I've been using the > Intel L440GX+ with pretty good results, but I was wondering what else > there is, now that there are 133Mhz memory busses, etc. > > James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor > up@3.am http://3.am > ========================================================================= > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message -- Cheers, Mikel +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ | Optimized Computer Solutions, Inc http://www.ocsny.com | 39 W14th Street, Suite 203 212 727 2238 x132 | New York, NY 10011 +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ | Labor rates: Tech $125 hourly | Net Engineer $150 hourly | Phone Support $ 33 quarter hourly | Lost Password $ 45 per incedent +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ | http://www.ocsny.com/~mikel +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ --------------4A599A108F0FD269D38B3427 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="mikel.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Mikel Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="mikel.vcf" begin:vcard n:King;Mikel x-mozilla-html:TRUE org:Optimized Computer Solutions version:2.1 email;internet:mikel@ocsny.com title:Procurement Manager tel;fax:2124638402 tel;home:http://www.upan.org/vizkr tel;work:2127272100 adr;quoted-printable:;;39 W14th St.=0D=0ASte 203;New York;NY;10011;US x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Mikel King end:vcard --------------4A599A108F0FD269D38B3427-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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