Anyone care to share a successful reco for an Intel Q9300 cpu capable motherboard? The wiki states only fairly old mobo''s that don''t seem to support this chip. I primarily need HVM support. Thanks! jlc _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
A problem I got recently on a new motherboard is the sata controller driver. It''s Intel''s ICH9 chip. You may need the latest Linux kernel version. Weiming On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Joseph L. Casale <jcasale@activenetwerx.com> wrote:> Anyone care to share a successful reco for an Intel Q9300 cpu capable > motherboard? The wiki states only fairly old mobo''s that don''t seem to > support this chip. > > I primarily need HVM support. > > Thanks! > jlc > > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 18:42 -0600, weiming wrote:> A problem I got recently on a new motherboard is the sata controller > driver. It''s Intel''s ICH9 chip. You may need the latest Linux kernel > version. > > WeimingI should be safe as I have an LSI SAS card I will use instead of any on-board controllers. I do suspect I may have NIC driver issues if it uses one of the newer cheap chips. Thanks! jlc _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Usually most Ethernet NICs work fine under Linux On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Joseph L. Casale <jcasale@activenetwerx.com> wrote:> > On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 18:42 -0600, weiming wrote: > > A problem I got recently on a new motherboard is the sata controller > > driver. It''s Intel''s ICH9 chip. You may need the latest Linux kernel > > version. > > > > Weiming > > I should be safe as I have an LSI SAS card I will use instead of any > on-board controllers. I do suspect I may have NIC driver issues if it > uses one of the newer cheap chips. > > Thanks! > jlc > >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Just to offer my 5 cents ... if you compare the prices of high end desktop boards ($200+) to those of low end server boards ($250-300), the rest of the parts are comparable in price, and then you''ll have a real server to run servers on. For example I recently built myself a quad core xeon box for under $1500, complete with 8g of ram and the latest in 45nm, the harpertown. It used to be FBDIMM memory cost a fortune, but the price for 8g of DDR2-667 fbdimm''s vs standard DDR2-667 is only about 30-50% more. Plus a server board is going to have 6 to 8 slots, which means it is possible to go beyond 8g (the limit of most desktop boards). Example, the xeon E5420 is roughly $50 more than the core2 q9300... but you get double the cache (12m vs 6m). The only problem... down the road, if you want to retask the box as a single user gamer, your xeon server board will not be very accommodating, where as the desktop board would be happy to oblige. Although, I''d question the value of a quad core in gamer anyway ... 90% of the games out there are still single core ponies. Gordon On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Joseph L. Casale <jcasale@activenetwerx.com> wrote:> Anyone care to share a successful reco for an Intel Q9300 cpu capable > motherboard? The wiki states only fairly old mobo''s that don''t seem to > support this chip. > > I primarily need HVM support. > > Thanks! > jlc > > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >_______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Gordon McLellan wrote:> The only problem... down the road, if you want to retask the box as a > single user gamer, your xeon server board will not be very > accommodating, where as the desktop board would be happy to oblige. > Although, I''d question the value of a quad core in gamer anyway ... > 90% of the games out there are still single core ponies. > > GordonEven so, either on Windows or Linux everyone will benefit more from Quad Core than from Dual Core, even if the games, and apps are single core aware. Remember something like a game often have a separate graphics engine, and you still need to run the main OS, plus sound / video / LAN / etc drivers, plus firewall, plus antivirus, etc. Yes, even games can benefit from a Quad Core, so the same system could be used as a VERY NICE game machine, it will beat any other normal game machine hands down. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff, or visit http://www.WebHostingTalk.co.za for Web Hosting stuff _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
>Just to offer my 5 cents ... if you compare the prices of high end >desktop boards ($200+) to those of low end server boards ($250-300), >the rest of the parts are comparable in price, and then you''ll have a >real server to run servers on.Totally agree, I just have all the bits already except a mobo :) jlc _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users