Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 13:23:26 -0500 From: "Louis Munro" <louismunro_nospam@altern.org> To: <freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: nforce2 board - is it asking for trouble? Message-ID: <001101c3b2b8$0df236d0$0300a8c0@gonzoboreas>
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Hi, I will soon be replacing my old pc and I'm looking for advice about the = motherboard I should be buying. I'd like to run both windoze (for the = games) and FreeBSD on it. Having a rather limited budget I have been looking at some boards with = integrated graphics. The only one that seems decent to me is the Asus = A7N8X-VM (see http://www.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=3DA7N8X-VM&langs=3D01) = but it uses the nforce2 chipset and an integrated Geforce4 MX GPU.=20 I've read some of the posts on the list that mention people having = problems whith that chipset such as no onboard ethernet support, which = I'm willing to live with (I have two other PCI cards I can use for that) = but some comments have me confused: should I expect more problems or = will it be fine using 4.9 stable and later? Will I have AGP support, 3D = acceleration under XFree86 etc?=20 Or am I setting myself up for trouble down the road? Any advice is appreciated, Louis
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