CPU upgrade vs CPUTYPE

2012-12-18 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! We have a small server running FreeBSD 8.3 amd64 with Intel Pentium D 945 CPU. As the motherboard/CPU combo is getting rather old, we are considering an upgrade to new motherboard with Xeon E3-1230 CPU. We currently have these CPU settings in /etc/make.conf: CPUTYPE?=nocona in

Re: CPU upgrade vs CPUTYPE

2012-12-18 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr
Cross-posting reply to amd64@ for relevance and to get answers from those smart gents. On 12/18/12 23:17, Toomas Aas wrote: Hello! We have a small server running FreeBSD 8.3 amd64 with Intel Pentium D 945 CPU. As the motherboard/CPU combo is getting rather old, we are considering an upgrade