I haven't got the final specs yet, probably a MoBo with a nVidia chipset, since those are the only ones I've seen with enough SATA controller, I'd prefe eight, but so far all I've found has been six.
Was the problems with seagates OBSD related, or general to the HDDs? I've had nothing but good experience with seagates so far, quiet, fast and cheap. The newest I have is in 24/7 use, and has been for the past year or so... The first thing I'd need to know is there any real gain from dual core's on OBSD (I think they do work, but how well?), if there's a real performance gain using dual cores then I'm probably going with dual cores and need to find out if there are some chipsets that work better, or more importantly if there are chipsets that don't work at all. Also I'd like to know if there's improvement on amd's 64bit vs 32bit. And of course if there's some knowledge about running software RAID (SATA) on OBSD, how much it takes CPU, what kinda speeds people have gotten with it, etc. Btw, better to keep these thru the misc mailing list, in case somebody else needs similar info. - turha On 11/16/06, Chris Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/16/06, turha turha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm about to build a new box, and thought I'd ask first if there's any > > experience with AMD's dual core processors (AM2 or s939). From what I've > > read both socket types work as amd64, with bsd and bsd.mp, right? > > > > Any thoughts on which works more stable and faster, i386 vs amd64 arch, > and > > the benefits of using bsd.mp? What chipsets/MoBos work well? > > > > So mainly I'm interested in comments from people who have tested these, > to > > see if it's worth the trouble (money) to get dual core for openbsd, is > there > > much of an improvement, etc. > > > > I'm planning on using the box for quite a few things, including software > > RAID, samba, FW, web server, probably ftp, etc. > > > > On a side note, AFAIK there are no working DVB-C cards for openbsd, > right? > > > > Thanks, > > - turha > > > I can vote against large Seagate HDDs. Curious IDE errors and lockup > under load. I am a couple of months from building a new AMD box, and > would be interested in seeing your final specs, sir. > Best, > Chris
