Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 16:26:21 -0500 From: "Thompson, Scott" <Scott_Thompson@quakeroats.com> To: "'Hartmann, O.'" <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: RE: SLOT 1 <-> FC-PGA converter in DUAL-SMP systems Message-ID: <B7FD423C11D3D2118A880008C7C5A11B07194EE8@chintmg5.corp.quakeroats.com>
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i believe that a-bit makes a dual pIII FPGA motherboard. this would eliminate the need for the bridges. -----Original Message----- From: Hartmann, O. [mailto:ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de] Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 7:40 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: SLOT 1 <-> FC-PGA converter in DUAL-SMP systems Dear Sirs. We use with great success and with reliability TYAN's Thunder 2500 mainboard (2x 866MHz) for our server box. We wish to upgrade this machine with to 1000 MHz Intel PIII CPUs within the next months. As we know, this mainboard has two SLOT 1 for CPUs and the most Intel-launched CPUs today are FC-PGA types. My first though was to obtain high quality (but from whom?) Slot 1 to FC-PGA converters as offered by several vendors but in the past I read much about high frequency/impedance problems with CPUs in such converter boards, especially for dual SMP systems. Has anyone experiences with such converters in DUAL-SMP boxes and CPUs >933 MHz? Can you name me please some high quality vendors of such boards? Thanks. Oliver -- MfG O. Hartmann ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de ---------------------------------------------------------------- IT-Administration des Institut fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 55099 Mainz Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinensaal) Tel: +496131/3924144 FAX: +496131/3923532 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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