Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 01:06:04 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Subject: Re: which motherboard and which chipset? Message-ID: <200402220106.04438.peter@wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <16434.34102.544869.558732@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> References: <002c01c3f312$947a26a0$c901a8c0@ts> <20040216080408.GE54371@dragon.nuxi.com> <16434.34102.544869.558732@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Tuesday 17 February 2004 01:18 pm, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > David O'Brien writes: > > nVidia nForce3 [for AMD64] chipsets are very problematic for > > Unix(BSD)/Linux. I would avoid them if you want to run a > > non-MS-Windows operating system. > > Whew. Just in time, I was just about to order an SK8N. What do you > suggest for a solid single-CPU socket-940 board which will use ECC > memory? Asus SK8V? I'd love to get hold of a SK8V if only I could find one. :-) I have two K8V deluxes (one at home, the other at work, both with ECC non-Registered PC3200 memory from crucial.com). My SK8N with my (then) $750 cpu and $350 of ECC/REG PC3200 ram is on a shelf gathering dust because I lost my trust in the board. Personally, I prefer the ASUS boards over the tyans because of the flexibility in the bios and the vastly superior active fan speed control system. But I have a slight preference for the AMD 8xxx chipset over the VIA K8T800, but its only slight. Both are (IMHO) way ahead of the nVidia nForce3-150. If you have to listen to the machine next to your desk, I suggest an asus - the tyan fans run at full speed all the time, with no thermal based fan throttling. If you don't have to listen to it, and want something slightly more server-oriented then the tyans are probably a slightly better bet because the AMD chipset has had longer to shake out the bugs. -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
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