Re: Hardware donation
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On Thursday 12 June 2003 16:34, Darin Strait wrote:
> Thirdly, it seems to me that most AMD64 installations will likely be 2P or
> 4P servers until the Athon64 comes out in the early fall (September, IIRC),
> and for several months beyond that. I believe that you will find that most
> of the current motherboards don't have AGP (including that K8D), which is a
> given on a modern consumer-level machine.
All Opteron boards I have heard of come with on-board graphics, so the
lack of AGP is not a problem, unless you want to do 3D gaming ;-).
What has kept me from buying one (besides price and availability), is the
fact that the PCI slots are mostly 3.3V only (the K8D master has
2 5V slots), and I have only 5V cards.
> (Does that K8D have on-board IDE? I don't see it in the specs. If it does,
> I don't know if it does hardware RAID, if it's supported by linux or how
> much faster it is versus software RAID. Software RAID worries me because it
> is a no-no in the Windows universe.)
There is a single IDE controller, so you can connect up to 4 drives (or two
if you want speed). Hardware IDE RAID is pointless on Linux-only machines,
since software RAID works better.
Arnd <><
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