E7500 Chipset

[David]

On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 20:26, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> I don't have an e7500 board yet, but we do have a supermicro  p4dl6 and a 
> p4dlr (GC-le) spinning and thus far they've been rock solid...
> 
> http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/MotherBoards/GC_LE/P4DL6.htm
> http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/MotherBoards/GC_LE/P4DLR.htm
> 
> I expect their e7500 board the p4dp6 to be very similar
> 
> http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/MotherBoards/E7500/P4DP6.htm
I have some of these boxes. To get IDE up to speed I had to use a vendor
modified kernel available at:
http://www.aslab.com

With the patch hdparm gives me 45 Mb/s throughput, without only 3 Mb/s.

Furthermore for serious computing you want to turn off hyperthreading in
the bios.
> 
> On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Marshall E. Fryman wrote:
> 
> > Since the E7500 chipset came up, does anyone have a recommendation for a 
> > stable 7500 board? I've been looking at the Tyan S2720, but it's so new I'm 
> > a bit concerned. Any other Xeon boards that might be recommended?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Marshall
> > 
> > 
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