From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Sep 6 22:48:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles530.castles.com [208.214.165.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E834D15609 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 22:48:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA23397; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 22:41:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199909070541.WAA23397@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: scanner@jurai.net Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD K-7 MB recommendations? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 06 Sep 1999 22:44:55 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 22:41:34 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You're misinformed; Asus will be shipping a K7 board shortly. Now you just have to wait for the CPUs to show up. > I am thinking of upgrading my MB/CPU combo soon, I am going to grab the > 500 Mhz athlon since it's the cheapest. My problems is I don't know which > MB. There are only 3 to choose from, and I am really mad asus and tyan are > not on the athlon bandwagon. FIC, GB, and MSI are the choices, and I have > no experience with any of them. Gigabyte I have heard of but the other two > sound very generic. > > Feedback on the 3 vendors would be appreciated, so I could choose who > makes the most solid MB that works best with FBSD. Since none of the hardware is generally available yet, this is a bit hopeful. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message