Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 08:11:50 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Motherboards Message-ID: <89905B8A-4D99-4D2E-ACAB-09278A6E473A@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420604230214o290b54f4ge50c0242560085f7@mail.gmail.com> References: <90B77A9F-FFE4-4227-80B1-FBF3DDC707B6@lafn.org> <cb5206420603280124v43ac202ue350574f5b9cf915@mail.gmail.com> <cone.1145766545.985963.60586.1000@zoraida.natserv.net> <cb5206420604230214o290b54f4ge50c0242560085f7@mail.gmail.com>
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On Apr 23, 2006, at 2:14 AM, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > On 4/23/06, Francisco Reyes <lists@stringsutils.com> wrote: >> Andrew Pantyukhin writes: >> >>> Supermicro are also very good, but IMO they come second after Tyan. >> >> Coming late, ok way late :-), into the thread, but someone was >> mentioning >> that Supermicro motherboards had issues with Opterons. >> >> Anyone has experienced/read/heard about this? > > Well, I've heard that Google builds their newest servers > almost exclusively on Opteron/Supermicro. Google also back in the day took a bunch of bad donated RAM chips and put them to use using a special parity checking algorithm. The point is that Google doesn't always buy the absolute best hardware--they like many businesses put cost first. -Garrett
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