On Fri, 2 Oct 2009, Toni Mueller wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> I'm considering to purchase Supermicro servers with one or two Nehalem
> CPUs and a 5520 chipset. Has anyone already tried these, and/or how
> much breakage should I expect?

i have a server based on 5500 chipset, most stuff works on -current,
no bigmem support yet, so you will be imited to around 3GB, but its stable

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> My reading of /plus.html suggests that it may be too early to jump onto
> this train, but if some devs want a few weeks play with it, remotely,
> that may be possible (please contact me off-list).

regards
dms@