Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 04:33:29 +0400 From: Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need motherboard for home fileserver Message-ID: <20071003003329.GA78359@hades.panopticon> In-Reply-To: <20071002164246.GA986@hades.panopticon> References: <20071002164246.GA986@hades.panopticon>
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* Dmitry Marakasov (amdmi3@amdmi3.ru) wrote: Thanks for you replies so far. Now after some digging I understand a bit what I actually need. Well, I hoped to get a SocketAM2 board for AthlonX2, as it is 30-40% cheaper than Core2Duo with similar performance, but most of AM2 motherboards use nForce chipset, which is unsupported by CURRENT. The only solution I've found is M2N32-SLI (thanks Craig), but I'll need to buy video card and Intel Gbit NIC. Though Core 2 Duo CPUs are more expensive, choice of motherboards is much wider, and they are generally cheaper than M2N32-SLI, so price of AMD/Intel platforms is nearly equal. I've found some MB's with integrated video and Intel ethernet: ASUS P5B-VM DO, Intel DG33BUC, Intel DG33FBC. I think I'll buy one of those, but just to be sure, are those statements right: - Marvell/NVidia NICs suck, and I am right that I definitely need Intel. (what about RealTec, btw?) - ICH8DO should work as well as ICH8 and G33 should work as well as G965 (didn't find menton of ICH8DO in src/sys/dev/ata/ata-chipset.c) - ADI*/Realtec(ALC*)/Sigmatel(STAC*) HDA CODECs provide more or less equal sound quality. And it can be considered `good' to non-audiophiles. -- Best regards, Dmitry Marakasov mailto:amdmi3@amdmi3.ru
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