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Kris Kersey (Augustus), mused, then expounded: |
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> Not to start an argument but from personal experience I have never had a |
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> problem with NVIDIA or Broadcom chips. Sometimes Marvell has not been as |
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> good though. |
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To add to Augustus' comment, I've used a lot of Broadcom and Intel network |
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chips with a number of different linux kernels, and haven't had any real |
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issues, other than soem unexplained latency differences on nodes in a cluster |
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with the Intel chips. I haven't had the ability to try the same with the |
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Broadcom chips, so can't comment on their performance in the same conditions. |
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That said, Intel just rev'ed their network chips to deal with issues. And the |
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new chips use the igb driver that's not in older Linux kernels. So just |
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a head's up. |
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And at home, my personal system is running an Nvidia chipset with no issues |
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for my personal usage. |
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Bob |
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> Thanks, |
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> Kris Kersey (Augustus) |
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> LinuxHardware.org Site Manager |
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> augustus@×××××××××××××.org |
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> Gentoo Linux AMD64 Developer |
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> augustus@g.o |
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> AIM: Augustus22 |
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> On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, P.V.Anthony wrote: |
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>> On this day, 10-November-2007 11:11 PM, Conway S. Smith wrote: |
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>>> I'm in the planning stages of assembling a new box for myself @ home, |
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>>> and I'm debating if I want to go with AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon. I've |
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>>> been focusing on Tyan motherboards, as I've heard here on the list that |
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>>> they've got really excellent Linux (and general) support. In the past |
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>>> I've mostly gone w/ AMD CPUs, as they had a significantly better |
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>>> price:performance ratio, but it's been a few years since I last did a |
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>>> lot of shopping around, and I'm starting to think things may have |
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>>> changed. I'm still leaning towards AMD Opterons (Barcelona), but I'm |
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>>> interested in hearing everyone else's opinions. |
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>> I know that AMD cpus are better but I had some problems with the onboard |
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>> network chips. Most of the motherboards come with some Marvell, Broadcom |
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>> or Nvidia network chips and these chips did not work for me. |
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>> I choose Intel chipset motherboards with Intel network because their |
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>> network cards are really good. |
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>> The drivers in the kernel are really good for me. |
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>> P.V.Anthony |
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