On 3 Jul, Peter Wemm wrote: > Chuck Robey wrote: >> On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, David O'Brien wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 07:43:22PM -0700, George V. Neville-Neil wrote: >> > > I know everyone says "they all work" but i'd like some recommendations > on >> > > MP machines for -CURRENT work. I'll be ordering one this week. >> > >> > There is but _1_ dual system to get -- Tyan Thunder K7 (code name Guinness) > . >> > http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk7.html. It comes in multiple >> > flavors, but mine is the dual-channel Ultra160, dual-3com 10/100, 5-64bit >> > PCI, 1 AGP version. You can cheap out and not get the non-SCSI S2462NG >> > model. Match this bad-boy up with a pair of fast Athlon `MP' (not `XP') >> > CPU's and it is a totally solid system. Various FreeBSD committers also >> > have this system. >> > >> > There is a newer [more economic] version called the Thunder K7X. >> > http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk7x.html >> >> "more economic" is a poor way to describe it, seeing as it has all the >> features, plus (1) an updated version of the AMD mp chipset and (2) a >> fixed onboard usb port. The K7 had a broken on-board usb (the AMD >> chipset had a PCI contention bug for the usb port, so the tin back panel >> of the board blocked out the usb, and the K7 came with a PCI usb card, >> which ate up one of your PCI slots. The K7X has a repaired on-board usb, >> so you get that PCI slot back. > > Hmmmmm..... Do you have any details on this? I've had occasional strange > USB-related things happen on this box. Of course, it runs -current which > puts me into the USB danger-zone enough as it is.. but what happens when > this bug is triggered?
I just finished buying the K7X myself, so I did quite a bit of research before rejecting the Asus board, and the K7. This included reading about a half dozen reviews I located via google and tomshardware. I'm quite certain of my facts (and my head is abuzz with lots more board trivia about them) but it's going to take a little bit for me to run down the source of the PCI comment. I'll do that, wait a bit for it. > > Cheers, > -Peter > -- > Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
