Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 22:35:36 +0200 From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: jeff@mercury.jorsm.com Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quad processor motherboard? Message-ID: <57604.932675736@verdi.nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Jul 1999 15:19:30 -0500 (CDT)" References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.990722151415.23796C-100000@mercury.jorsm.com>
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> > I'm looking for a good quad processor motherboard to use with FreeBSD.. So > > far I have found several, all really expensive as expected and they almost > > all had on-board SCSI controllers and such.. I'd expect these to be really expensive mostly due to much lower volume and less competition between vendors - not sure the on-board SCSI is a big factor. > > > > It's been said to me that even on-board Adaptec controllers won't work under > > FreeBSD, so I'm left out in the cold.. > > We have several dual PII ASUS motherboards with integrated Adaptec UW > controllers. They're not quads, and I can't see why it would matter, but > all run fine under FBSD. Just curious, what are you doing that requires > that much CPU? I can confirm that the dual PII ASUS motherboards with integrated SCSI work really well. If you're looking for an inexpensive SMP system without onboard SCSI, the Abit BP6 with dual Celeron Socket370 also works well. Given the rather small market for quad processor systems, I'd expect two dual processor Celeron systems to be considerably less expensive, total, than a quad processor PII/PIII system. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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