From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Sep 15 16: 1:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (GndRsh.dnsmgr.net [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8D481546F for ; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 16:01:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA41354; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 15:52:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199909152252.PAA41354@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Subject: Re: Quad-PIII...exists? In-Reply-To: from Neil Bradley at "Sep 15, 1999 12:59:28 pm" To: neil@synthcom.com (Neil Bradley) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 15:52:30 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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 for a ``Tiawanese in-expensive board'' we do a big volume in Soltek, have had outstanding luck with them, and since we are an official distributor we get top nouch service when the rare RMA comes up. They are a little late with thier Dual PII BX board, but given the good luck we have always had with the other products I am going to give a few a ``test drive''. Care to expand on the ``marginal hardware problems''? -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message