Contributed by grey on from the keep the c2k4 stories coming dept.
Choice quote from art@:
"Kernel compile time on a quad machine with whatever lousy drives AMD puts in them (make -j7 PIPE=-pipe) is around 80 seconds. We could get really used to those machines, too bad it's only a loaner."Looks like now might be a good time to start looking at new hardware. While one of Tyan's S4882UG2NR quad opteron motherboards is about $1650, they have many dual motherboards to choose from some brands can be had in the $250 and up range. And coming soon iWill is going to be offering a dual opteron small form factor system. If memory serves, there's only one major vendor not shipping opteron servers so you may be able to find some good deals if you don't want to build yourself as well. And of course, from personal experience, I can say that developers have liked fast hardware donations in the past if any readers feel so inclined. >:)
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Obviously I've been heavily intrigued by amd64, but personally I'm still waiting a bit until pci-express (and expresscard for laptops) systems start appearing (various chipsets, and the upcoming HypterTransport 2.0 spec with pci-e/pcx support have been announced, but most of these aren't due out until around fall at the earliest e.g. as this report makes mention of). That said, I'm not sure how difficult it will be to get support for this new bus standard with OpenBSD just yet (and while currently only graphics cards will take advantage of it I can quickly see it filling needs for say a quad port version of this.
Anyone with comments on PCI-Express support and OpenBSD? Intel-oriented systems and pci-e graphics cards are hitting the streets, or should be soon if not hampered too much by recalls.
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