Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:07:18 +0200 From: Adriaan de Groot <groot@kde.org> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Cc: John Wilson <solita2@solitarylight.com> Subject: Re: Mainboard suggestions? Message-ID: <200409151107.19224.groot@kde.org> In-Reply-To: <20040915003915.2489d1b0.solita2@solitarylight.com> References: <20040915003915.2489d1b0.solita2@solitarylight.com>
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On Wednesday 15 September 2004 07:39, John Wilson wrote: > I am currently in the process of spec'ing a new machine for myself and wish > to go the AMD64 way. Unfortunately, trying to find good information on > the myriad of mainboards that are available is giving me a serious > headache. :) There are really only two types: nvidia nforce 3 and via kt800 based boards. There are a few sub-variations in those chipsets, but in general if you look at the benchmarks on all them the differences within one family are marginal at best (like 3%). > platform come from either Asus or MSI. My original goal was to find a > board with the minimum of additional features onboard, save for sound and a > NIC. Firewire is useless to me. It's hard to get away from all the builtins; most boards that I'd trust (ie. not stuff from elitegroup) end up with all the bells and whistles. My firewire ports lie idle as well. > - Which is the better chipset for FreeBSD, the Via offering or the NVidia > one? nforce3 _had_ issues, that's for sure (oh, and I can't speak for any of the RAID support). > - It appears that Asus has problems with their onboard NIC as well; there > were a few messages posted to the list in regard to this. Is this still a > problem? Should I avoid Asus because of this? The asus k8v SE has an sk0 onboard that had been reported to be wonky. I had stability problems with it about a month ago, haven't recreated the problem recently (mostly for lack of trying). -- Don't worry, 't ain't no shame to be stupid - ol' mouse. GPG: FEA2 A3FE Adriaan de Groot
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