NVidia chipsets (was Re: Any experience with "Asus A8N-SLi" or"Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI" mobos?)

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Tue Feb 15 15:54:01 PST 2005


On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 10:32:30AM +1100, Jan Mikkelsen wrote:
> sheet the chipset is an "NVIDIA nForce Professional with AMD-8131 
> HyperTransport PCI-X tunnel".
> 
> The xw9300 looked interesting to me, but I guess the chipset is going to 
> be a problem for using FreeBSD on those boxes.  Is HP a possible source 
> of information on the chipset?

Very unlikely.
 
> (Incidentally, does anyone know anything about the HP DL385, or the HP 
> Opteron blades, the BL25p and BL35p?)

The *5 machines are opteron versions of the Xeon offerings.  See the *0
Xeon offerings to get a feel for the specs of the box.
I *believe* the DL385 uses the DL380 chassis.

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