What kind of MotherBoard is better for FreeBsd and linux?

[Martin Nilsson]

David O'Brien wrote:
>>>>MSI
>>>>K8D Master3 (MS-9161) 
>>It is very picky with the memories on the CPU that have 8 slots. MSI 
>>only supports 8 dimms on that CPU at 266MHz, 6*dimm at 333MHz.
> 
> It depends on the revision of the Opteron used.  Rev.E CPU's should
> handle 8*DDR333 fine.

Aha, nice to know I probably had rev.CG (2*246) as this was a couple of 
months ago. Are rev. E CPU:s out yet in models slower than the pricy 252?

>>MSI:s support is slow and terrible - you get what you pay for!
> Agreed!  They also have a nasty habit of end-of-lifeing their Opteron
> boards.  In fact you can't even navigate to the MS-9161 product page on
> the MSI USA web site. :-(

The BIOS for their older Opteron boards haven't been updated in ages!

>>I'm testing the Supermicro OEM boards instead, I will post a status 
>>report when I know more.
> What model board do you have?

H8DAE-B (AMD 8131/8111)
H8DCE-B (nVidia CK804/IO4) On order, haven't got these yet.

/Martin