Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 16:03:04 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: need some advice Message-ID: <42EA4528.8010400@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <20050729134726.GA68096@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <20050729002602.65ff60bb.dick@nagual.st> <42E96BBB.1000809@gmail.com> <20050729134726.GA68096@lothlorien.nagual.st>
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Dick Hoogendijk wrote: >On 28 Jul Trevor Sullivan wrote: > > >>I would recommend purchasing an Athlon 64 3000+ Venice core. I just >>picked one of these up along with 2 gigs of ram and a 6600GT and it >>runs sooooooo nice. Not only that, but it's cheap. >> >> > >I tend to switch to this 3000+ Venice core thing. Problem is finding a >motherboard that ALSO is fully supported by FreeBSD. It seems lots of >those 939 boards are not ;-( > >If you are running fbsd, which motherboard did you choose? > > ASUS A8V Deluxe (no wifi). However, I think any VIA k8t800Pro should basically work. Upside: Twin SATA RAID (VIA + Promise) and legacy IDE; working Gigabit Ethernet; PS/2 keyboard + mouse; one serial port; 6 USB2 (untested, but worked in XP); passive northbridge cooling (i.e. no noisy fan); firewire (untested). Downside: bad ACPI: power down works, suspend untested, thermal info completely missing. acpidump -t produces "acpidump: RSDT entry 2 (sig OEMB) is corrupt" before reading everything. However, apic works afaik. Only one HDD activity connector There is an SLI version but I have no idea if that's FreeBSD compatible. Runs FreeBSD i386 5.4 just fine. My experience in choosing motherboards is that only a motherboard with virtually nothing on it is "fully" supported. When I chose this one the gigabit ethernet wasn't supported, but that just wasn't important enough to me. Then support came along :-) Overall, I am happy because I haven't seen anything else that would be better. If you intend overclocking then it seems that MSI is a popular choice, but no idea about other hardware on those boards. --Alex
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