From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 9 12:27:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA27338 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 12:27:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [209.150.92.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA27151 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 12:27:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shawn@luke.cpl.net) Received: from localhost (shawn@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA12569; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 12:25:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 12:25:34 -0800 (PST) From: Shawn Ramsey To: Penisoara Adrian cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Opinion on ATC5000 motherboard ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > Socket7 boards are quite cheap (in comparison to P6/PII multiprocessor > > > boards :) ) and some are really really good. > > > > Be sure to get a board that can cache more than 64MB of RAM, which is rare > > in P5 boards, ESPECIALLY Intel Chipsets! I have a FIC PA2007, which does > > just about everything you would want in a P5 board, except AGP. I > > purchased the 1MB board from Leapfrog Labs for less than $100 I think. > > Would you care to describe a bit how the motherboard performed for you > until now ? It has performed fine, although I have done no formal benchmarks. It is now serving as a router at a remote locatation. > Did you have any troubles with the VIA chipset (like recognisig them) ? > Is this latest VIA chipset supported with specific driver code in > FreeBSD (at least current) ? No Problems at all. It is running version 2.2.5R. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message