Supermicro LE vs HE-SL chipsets

[Ray Muno]

We tested different things on a few HE-SL and LE based boards.  In the default
setup, we found the LE to be faster than the HE-SL.  After tweaking settings
on the HE-SL board, things improved and pushed the HE-SL ahead of the
LE based machines.  We ran a variety of tests, both benchmarks and our
own codes.

We did our testing remotely with a very cooperative vendor (Atipa-DCG).

On the SuperMicro board, there is a "use optimal" setting which improved
things over the default.

The BIOS allows you to twiddle with the CAS memory paramaters.  At this point,
we have not determined if CAS 2 versus CAS 3 memory makes any difference on
a ServerWorks based board.  Has anyone made this determination?  I would
love to hear feedback.

On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:54:19PM -0500, William R. Pearson wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately, I am still in the process of evaluating dual processor
> boards based on the Supermicro LE and HE-SL chipsets.
> 
> One of the vendors I am working with suggests that the HE-SL has
> considerably lower performance than the LE chipset, which seems
> surprising considering the HE-SL chipset supports interleaved memory.
> 
> Does anyone have experience with boards based on the two chipsets?
> 
> Bill Pearson
> 
> 
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