Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 12:54:43 -0800 From: "David G. Lawrence" <dg@dglawrence.com> To: "Ernst W. Winter" <ewinter@ewinter.org> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nForce 3 150 vs. VIA K8T800 Message-ID: <20041119205443.GF4339@opteron.dglawrence.com> In-Reply-To: <20041119205422.GA1010@lobo.homeunix.org> References: <20041119203821.GE4339@opteron.dglawrence.com> <20041119205422.GA1010@lobo.homeunix.org>
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> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, David G. Lawrence wrote: > > > So, given a choice between an AMD64 motherboard with nVidia nForce > > 3 150 chipset or VIA K8T800 chipset, which one actually works and > > what are the tradeoffs? > > > well I had a Gigabyte G-K8NS with a socket 754 and nForce 3 250 > chipset but switched to a ASUS A8V delux socket 939 with a chipset > VIA K8T800 and the latter is better as well more things seem to work > with less down sides. I think the latter is much better with the > dual channel memory and runs faster. But then again this is only my > recent experience with AMD64. I recall some folks were recently having stability problems with one of the VIA chipsets - any idea which chipset that was? -DG David G. Lawrence President Download Technologies, Inc. - http://www.downloadtech.com - (866) 399 8500 TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com - (888) 346 7175 The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Pave the road of life with opportunities.
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