Hi,
Constantin's blog does come perilously close to being an AMD reference design, and could easily be turned into a useful one according to my internal metrics. About the only things that turned me away from plunging in and replicating it are that - I had a hard time finding an ASUS M3A78-CM a couple of months ago when I was looking - the Athlon II X2 240e is new, and although Constantin got one for review, the retail outlets won't have them for a while, at least that I can tell.
thanks for reading my blog. You don't have to use a 240e. In fact, if I had to buy a CPU today, I'd go with the 238e. .1 GHz less but approx. half the price. Any other recent AMD CPU should work fine, by the way, they really only differ by the amount of cache, cores, GHz and HT links. You want an "e" as part of the model number so the CPU uses less power over a regular one. A 238e may be easier to get because it's manufactured at higher yields than the faster 240e. The most important thing is to make sure you have ECC support in the CPU and on the motherboard. That is easy to get at low cost with AMD. I've seen a couple of posts that recommended an Asus M4A board, so that may help you as well. The only reason I picked an M3 series was purely cost.
I've been on anyone-can-say-anything networks since about 1978. In that time I learned to read for content, but to personally verify anything I read before putting real money into it. So these two blogs were a big inspiration, but they started me off on the verification quest. This led me through the
Yes, there's no substitute for real-life experience. But you have to be prepared to spend a couple of bucks as "learning money".
So I had two thoughts - one, I could bombard the bloggers with questions, or I could take my questions to the forum which seemed to be for this kind of issue - here.
Feel free to do both :). Cheers, Constantin -- Sent from OpenSolaris, http://www.opensolaris.org/ Constantin Gonzalez Sun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Principal Field Technologist http://blogs.sun.com/constantin Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://google.com/search?q=constantin+gonzalez Sitz d. Ges.: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB 161028 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Thomas Schroeder, Wolfgang Engels, Wolf Frenkel Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Haering _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
