Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 12:49:23 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: Jia-Shiun Li <jiashiun@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD64 X2 Message-ID: <20050703124923.437a0b95@vixen42.local.lan> In-Reply-To: <1d6d20bc05070304532e9b1fb9@mail.gmail.com> References: <200506290818.j5T8IELL002348@peedub.jennejohn.org> <42C3F72E.9070902@speakeasy.net> <8f55402905063018441217c95a@mail.gmail.com> <20050701015457.GC4460@dragon.NUXI.org> <42C5220B.1000203@crossflight.co.uk> <1d6d20bc050701065367a01e8b@mail.gmail.com> <20050701172139.GA25916@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <42C587EC.7030203@samsco.org> <1d6d20bc05070304532e9b1fb9@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 19:53:48 +0800 Jia-Shiun Li <jiashiun@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7/2/05, Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> wrote: > > The Asus A8V-E series also does not work. Asus claims that it's a > > limitation of the Via K8T890 chipset, which is highly unfortunate > > since it's otherwise a good motherboard. Not sure whether to be > > upset at Asus or Via here, but either way I guess both suck =-) > > That's part of the reason why I did not choose AMD. Although I > wanted to build an x86-64 capable system and I have absolutely not > doubt that AMD did a good job, how to choose motherboard was a big > question to me. Especially being experienced with KT133A and > VT62x2. So I decided to be chicken and choose (to me) safer Intel > P4 531 and P5GD1 board. Playing it safe and not buying hardware with VIA or Sil chipsets works nicely. :) > BTW Intel and AMD already decided to let all CPUs support > x86-64(mostly for marketing purposes), including P4 5x1 series, > Celeron D 3x1/3x6 series, and Sempron. Intel ones already arrived > the market. So expect more traffics discussing it. Meanwhile the > name AMD64 could be misleading to some people who did not really > understand the differences. ;)
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