From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 29 17:36:44 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4F5216A403 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:36:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24D5313C48E for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:36:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr7.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0THOgrm036369; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:24:43 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6B24BB827; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:24:42 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:24:42 +0100 From: Roland Smith To: Glenn Sieb Message-ID: <20070129172442.GA39489@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <45BD6256.7030807@wingfoot.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45BD6256.7030807@wingfoot.org> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: Looking to upgrade my hardware and run 6.2-RELEASE] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:36:44 -0000 --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 09:56:22PM -0500, Glenn Sieb wrote: > I said... > > Since I tend to build my own boxes, I'd like to make sure my choice of > > CPU/MB is good fro FBSD before I buy :-) > >=20 > > I'm looking at an AMD X2 64 5400 and an Abit AN9 32X. > >=20 > > The AN9 has: > >=20 > > NVIDIA nForce SPP 190/nForce 590 SLI MCP > > Dual NV Gigabit LAN The nve(4) driver supports the following chipsets: o nForce o nForce2 o nForce3 o nForce4 It doesn't look like nForce5 is supported yet. > > 6x SATA 3gb/s ports with RAID 0/1/0+1/5 JBOD support > > (plus 2x SATA ports non-RAID) The ata(4) driver supports the following chipsets: nVidia: nForce, nForce2, nForce2 MCP, nForce3, nForce3 MCP, nForce3 Pro, nForce4. No nForce5 here either.=20 > > I know that NVIDIA chipsets (at least used to) require separate > > downloads of the chipset drivers. Is this still the case? According to nve(4): This driver is a reimplementation of the NVIDIA supported Linux nvnet driver and uses the same closed source API library to access the under= ly- ing hardware. There is currently no programming documentation availab= le for this device, and therefore little is known about the internal arch= i- tecture of the MAC engine itself. > > I've been using Abit MBs for years now, but I'm not necessarily tied to > > them, if there are better suggestions from the list. Looks like you'd better stick with a KN9 (nForce4) for now. Asus has the M2V-MX with VIA chipset that looks OK. Not sure about the Realtek RTL8100C ethernet chip though. Same goes for the MSI K9VGM-V. It has a RTL8201 ethernet chip. I've never had trouble with MSI mobos with VIA chipsets. They might not be the fastest, but generally everything works. AMD chipsets are fine as well. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFvi3aEnfvsMMhpyURAv3qAJ9DmFDXeZ1Qm6stXtgnnBMoWqQmGQCeJCI9 OaYzh7Xrd10wU57U9GYIUOU= =Duzf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --1yeeQ81UyVL57Vl7--