Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:17:41 +0530 From: "Gautham Ganapathy" <gauthamg123list@myrealbox.com> To: "Cliff L. Biffle" <cbiffle@safety.net> Cc: "Questions @ FreeBSD" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Athlon motherboard for 5.0? Message-ID: <NGBBJAAOCMHHCAAOGNFMEEMFFFAA.gauthamg123list@myrealbox.com> In-Reply-To: <200212071330.35054.cbiffle@safety.net>
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On Sunday, December 08, 2002 2:01 AM, Cliff L. Biffle wrote > > I'm running 5.0-DP2 on an Asus motherboard with the Apollo > KT133 chipset. The > chipset is notoriously buggy, according to the folks on > -current, and I've > been having trouble with the USB and ATA controllers -- though it's > intermittent and hard to reproduce. > > I've stumbled across a new 1.4Ghz Athlon Thunderbird chip, > which doesn't work > in my older motherboard. So, I'm in the market for a mobo. > It's for a > workstation, and integrated graphics and sound are not > desired. It'd be nice > if it took PC133 SDRAM, since I have 768MB here, but DDR is okay if > necessary. But most importantly, everything on the > motherboard needs to have > good support in 5.0. Support in 4-stable is nice, but hardly > a requirement. > If this means sticking with an older, more conservative chipset, and > sacrificing things like USB 2.0, Firewire, or fast AGP, it > doesn't bother me > at all. I'm not a gamer or a video producer; my motherboard > is used solely > to connect my CPU to RAM and cards. :-) > > Suggestions? Don't know about 5.0. I am currently running 4.7-RELEASE on an ASUS A7V333 with a 850 MHz Athlon TBird. Have had no problems so far with audio/video/LAN... There were some problems with the chipset when I was using 4.5-RELEASE, but i think they were fixed in 4.7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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