Rackmount MP AMD boxes?

[Jose M Rodriguez]

El Domingo, 15 de Mayo de 2005 07:25, gnn at freebsd.org escribió:
> At Sun, 15 May 2005 12:42:03 +0800,
>
> Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > gnn at freebsd.org wrote:
> > > Anyone got one they like?
> > >
> > > I am looking for something to develop FreeBSD on, in particular
> > > network code so it needs to be able to be serial debugged and
> > > have room for multiple NICs.  1 or 2U.
> >
> > It depends on your budget.
> >
> > I use Tyan motherboards and do my own machines if it should be
> > cheap.
>
> I'm thinking $2000 total, board, box, processors, memory and a disk.
> I'd like to go lower of course but doubt it since I want two
> processors ;-)
>

Tyan GX28 (B2882) will be a cantidate, but you be warned of:

- It's an 1U blade.
- Doesn't have too much disk I/O power (SATA conected to PCI 32/33).

In the other hand:

+ dual core CPU support official By tyan.
+ Free PCI-X 64/133 slot.
+ Broadcom BCM5704C dual channel to PCI-X bridge.
+ Intel 82551QM to PCI 32/33

I doesn't try run this with just a dual-core CPU.  ALso this will limit 
RAM to 4 slot/ 8 GB.

So think in a base 244 (x2) system with DDR333 (x4).

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  josemi