From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 16 03:20:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DF6037B401; Sat, 16 Aug 2003 03:20:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB60F43FAF; Sat, 16 Aug 2003 03:20:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id E482C526CD; Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:50:51 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:50:51 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: FreeBSD hardware Users , FreeBSD Hackers Message-ID: <20030816102051.GB820@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="1LKvkjL3sHcu1TtY" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Subject: nVIDIA nForece2, again X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 10:20:59 -0000 --1LKvkjL3sHcu1TtY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline My main machine has just fried a southbridge, and I'm looking for a replacement. From what I can see, in the AMD range, the current best performer is the nVIDIA nForece2. I've read Bill Paul's description of the problems with the onboard NIC, and if I buy one of these boards, I'll certainly swell his mailbox of disgruntled nVIDIA customers. But at a more pragmatic level, a 100 Mb/s NIC costs nothing, and I have a few spares floating around, so it's not that big a deal. Looking at what our local suppliers have to offer, the MSI K7N2 Delta boards (http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=436) look reasonable, both in terms of performance and price. Does anybody have any experience with them? Are there any other problems with the chip set? I've heard that it has an IOAPIC on it, even for single processors. Is this an issue? Any other comments? Based on what I've read, I'd probably be putting a Barton 2600XP+ and 0.5 to 1 GB of DDR memory into it. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers --1LKvkjL3sHcu1TtY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/PgWDIubykFB6QiMRArKbAJ0dnheabubUDfE4SygpnkRXvDVLBACcCvI2 QFhUdwnzDw0qAle20+8yzSo= =i4FA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --1LKvkjL3sHcu1TtY--