Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 11:35:43 -0800 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> To: Brian Dean <bsd@bsdhome.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Comments on four mobos Message-ID: <200112031935.LAA22344@mina.soco.agilent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Dec 2001 11:19:39 EST." <20011201111939.B9285@neutrino.bsdhome.com>
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Brian Dean <bsd@bsdhome.com> wrote:
> While not on your list, I bought an ASUS A7M266 mid-summer and haven't
> had any trouble. I'm not sure about the differences between the ATA266
> which is on your list - but hey, it's only off by one letter :).
While the A7M266 is an excellent motherboard (I, too, have one),
it's pretty expensive, and I'd like to point out that the chipset that
it uses (the AMD 760) is effectively obsolete. AMD puts out motherboard
chipsets mainly to promote their processors, and are (apparently)
intended to be used only until other the other chipset manufacturers
start producing decent chipsets (which they now are). Also note that
the A7M266 does have (very well known) problems with the Netgear FA311
(not FA310) card (bottom line: "use anything but").
Today, motherboards based upon the SiS 735 or the VIA KT266A ("266A",
*NOT* "266") are the ones to get. These motherboards are *MUCH* cheaper
than the ATM266, and are a bit faster. Just go to the various
motherboard newsgroups and pick one that seems reliable.
--
Darryl Okahata
darrylo@soco.agilent.com
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