I am planning to build a server based on the SuperMicro X7DBE+-O motherboard. This server will have two dual-core Xeon processors and a 3ware 9550SX raid card.
Has anyone built a server based on this motherboard? Are there any issues with the smp/dual-core support in CentOS4 that might cause problems?
I appreciate any input. I'm just looking to find out about any possible problems before I spend the money for the MB, CPU, and amazingly expensive RAM.
Thanks,
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 at 5:26pm, Bowie Bailey wrote
I am planning to build a server based on the SuperMicro X7DBE+-O motherboard. This server will have two dual-core Xeon processors and a 3ware 9550SX raid card.
Has anyone built a server based on this motherboard? Are there any issues with the smp/dual-core support in CentOS4 that might cause problems?
CentOS4 has no issues with SMP/dual core.
I appreciate any input. I'm just looking to find out about any possible problems before I spend the money for the MB, CPU, and amazingly expensive RAM.
Is there any reason you're locked into Xeon/FB-DIMM? SuperMicro makes many rather nice Opteron boards, with good ol' DDR SDRAM. And there aren't many areas where Xeon outperforms Opteron these days, if any.
Is there any reason you're locked into Xeon/FB-DIMM? SuperMicro makes many rather nice Opteron boards, with good ol' DDR SDRAM. And there aren't many areas where Xeon outperforms Opteron these days, if any.
This is especially true in multi-processor setups. Intel uses an SMP setup with a single I/O controller for the memory which means that only 1 processor can be accessing memory at a time. AMD uses a NUMA architecture with a dedicated I/O controller for each processor.
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