On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 07:56:03PM +0200, turha turha wrote: > 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.
If you like working devices I'd advise against buying a system board with an nVidia chipset. I picked up an Asus K8N-E some time ago, but my on-board audio, gig ethernet, video and some other miscellaneous devices didn't work under OpenBSD 3.8. I have yet to try a current release; maybe this weekend. > 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... ISTR there being some bad runs of Seagate drives a few years ago, maybe that was the problem? I have a small Seagate drive from maybe 2000 that's worked without issue. I've been buying Maxtor SATA drives these days. > 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. I think this is really going to depend on your application. If none of your processes are threaded, you're probably not going to see a big performance gain by going multi-proc. Likewise, a 64-bit CPU will give you more memory bandwidth, but if you're not using it what's the point? If you use any binary device drivers, you'll want to check that they're available for your specific platform. > 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 -Damian
