Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 08:54:33 +0200 From: Francois Tigeot <ftigeot@wolfpond.org> To: John Wilson <solita2@solitarylight.com> Cc: amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mainboard suggestions? Message-ID: <20040915065433.GB10104@aoi.wolfpond.org> In-Reply-To: <20040915003915.2489d1b0.solita2@solitarylight.com> References: <20040915003915.2489d1b0.solita2@solitarylight.com>
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On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 12:39:15AM -0500, John Wilson wrote: > > I am currently in the process of spec'ing a new machine for myself and wish > to go the AMD64 way. Unfortunately, trying to find good information on > the myriad of mainboards that are available is giving me a serious > headache. :) > > >From what I've been able to gather, the two best mainboards for the AMD64 > platform come from either Asus or MSI. My original goal was to find a board > with the minimum of additional features onboard, save for sound and a NIC. > Firewire is useless to me. > > I've attempted browsing the AMD64 mailling list here for good info, but have > come away scratching my head even more. Basically, my questions are as > follows: > > - Which is the better chipset for FreeBSD, the Via offering or the NVidia one? I believe NForce 3 chipsets have some teething problems. > - It seems that a lot of the MSI boards use Realtek audio and NIC's. Are these > any good? Are they at all supported? My understanding was that Realtek was > on the crappy side, but I've no personal experience with them. The Realtek NIC found on Athlon64 boards is not the crappy rl(4). It supports at least hardware checksum offloading... > - It appears that Asus has problems with their onboard NIC as well; there were > a few messages posted to the list in regard to this. Is this still a problem? > Should I avoid Asus because of this? > > - If anyone could make a suggestion as to the best mainboard, in regard to > FreeBSD compatibility, I'd be most appreciative. I use a MSI K8T Neo-FIS2R and everything works flawlessly including the onboard NIC and sound. -- Francois Tigeot
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