From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Jul 12 10:42: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from par28.ma.ikos.com (par28.ma.ikos.com [137.103.105.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D117C151C3 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 10:41:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tich@par28.ma.ikos.com) Received: from [[UNIX: localhost]] ([[UNIX: localhost]]) by par28.ma.ikos.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA05079; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:40:47 -0400 From: Richard Cownie To: "Steven P. Donegan" , freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Motherboard options Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:21:47 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.0] Content-Type: text/plain References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99071213404700.05073@par28.ma.ikos.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-KMail-Mark: Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 09 Jul 1999, Steven P. Donegan wrote: > What options are there for quad processor motherboards that are known to > successfully run FreeBSD SMP? Thanks in advance for any pointers. > > Steven P. Donegan > Sr. Engineer > WANG Global The Intel SC450NX is a good and reasonably cheap 4-way Xeon system. I have FreeBSD (-current) running on two systems, the larger has 4 x Xeon-500MHz, 4GB DRAM, and 6 x 9GB disk - total cost ~ $20K (from www.sagelec.com). With only 1 disk and 256MB DRAM the price is $9800. Note that FreeBSD doesn't like the onboard SCSI chip, you need to use an Adaptec SCSI card. A 4-way system needs hefty power supplies and cooling, so as far as I know there aren't any simple "quad processor motherboards" (unless you go way back to the 200MHz PentiumPro and Socket8 - but this would be slower than 2 x PentiumIII-500MHz). Richard Cownie (tich@ma.ikos.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message