Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 08:51:40 +0200 From: "Ernst W. Winter" <ewinter@ewinter.org> To: Lars Tunkrans <lars.tunkrans@bredband.net> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MB ASUS Message-ID: <20041027065140.GA54188@lobo.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <417EC623.6090900@bredband.net> References: <20041026173024.GB879@lobo.homeunix.org> <20041026180803.GA4202@dragon.nuxi.com> <20041026141407.481d4f17.feisal@uwi.tt> <20041026182524.GB1234@lobo.homeunix.org> <417EC623.6090900@bredband.net>
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On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Lars Tunkrans wrote: > Ernst W. Winter wrote: > > >Thanks, the same has happen with the Nvidea3 250 I have here with > >a Gigabyte MB, so I think I rather will use the ASUS again as I > >had good experience with them all the time so far as well I will > >have to put a box together for a customer that want a AMD64/754 > >with FreeBSD. I have a Lancard in mine now and it works ok, but > >no sound. > > Hi, > > The advice I usually give these days is : > > Forget socket 754 - buy socket 939. Its faster with it's DUAL > DIMM 128 bit memorybus. > Its also the future, the New > AMD Athlon64 4000+ and > the FX-55 are both socket > 939. > > Avoid the current batch of ASUS boards for FreeBSD. Most of them > have Either or Both of the NVIDIA Nforce3 chipsets and the Marvel > Yukon sk0 Ethernet chip. > > I bought the MSI K8T Neo2 FIR. with K8T800-PRO chipset and > Realtek re0 Gigabit chip. > works beautifully . Does a seti@home workunit in 2 hours and 15 > minutes, with the Athlon64 3800+ CPU. > Thanks, that sounds nicer. I wonder if there would be something like a "HW buyers guide for the FreeBSD AMD64" around somewhere as that would help people that switch frim AMD32. Still I have to be content with the one I have at home, but hope that the problems will be solved soon. Again I will take your advice and talk to the customer and let them know. Ernst
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