Comments on: CPU confabulation https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2005/02/21/cpu-confabulation/ A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Fri, 25 Feb 2005 03:16:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: phoenix https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2005/02/21/cpu-confabulation/comment-page-1/#comment-444 Fri, 25 Feb 2005 03:16:27 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=962#comment-444 We’re running a pair of 2U rackmount servers running dual-Opteron 242s with 4 GB ECC RAM. These are running Debian Linux and Fedora Core 2 (requirements for the software running on them). Prior to entering production, though, I had FreeBSD 5.2.1 running on one of them without any issues. Ran fine in 32-bit and 64-bit mode (tried both installs). The motherboard is an MSI something or other with the VIA K8T800 chipset.

We’ve also got a dual-AthlonMP 2U rackmount server running FreeBSD 5.2.1 (soon 5.3 or 5.4) without any issues. It’s only got 3 GB of ECC RAM. It’s an MSI Master something or other with a VIA chipset. No problems with it so far.

And, finally, we’ve got a pair of dual-AthlonMP systems with 2 GB ECC RAM running FreeBSD 5.3. No problems with that one either. It’s an MSI Master board as well, with a VIA chipset.

You should be able to run DFly on similar hardware. Just don’t get anything with an nForce chipset and you’ll be fine.

]]> By: Justin C. Sherrill https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2005/02/21/cpu-confabulation/comment-page-1/#comment-443 Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:28:38 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=962#comment-443 There’s been some mentioning of it on the mailing lists:

http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2005-02/msg00271.html

Plus, there’s this really good article I linked some time ago, which talks about why some AMD multiCPU solutions are really fantastic:

http://www.samag.com/documents/s=9408/sam0411b/0411b.htm

]]> By: BSD Daemon https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2005/02/21/cpu-confabulation/comment-page-1/#comment-442 Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:06:00 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=962#comment-442 I use an AMD Athlon MP 2800+ system which I built in 2003, currently running FreeBSD 5.2.1, . The motherboard is MSI K7D with 1GB registered ECC SDRAM, has been rock solid so far.

If I were to build a new SMP computer today with a good price/performance ratio, I would probably go for AMD Opteron 2way 242 or 244 cpu and a MSI K8T motherboard.

]]> By: Frank https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2005/02/21/cpu-confabulation/comment-page-1/#comment-441 Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:15:39 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/?p=962#comment-441 I am in a situation where I need to build a new computer. I have been looking at dual CPU system, but what I have found so far – and has been recommended – have been Intel solutions. I would like to know if anyone has experience with dual CPU AMD systems – good or bad. what motherboards to look for and so on? I hope there are some out there that can help me. Thanks in advance.

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