Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:07:18 +0200 From: Adriaan de Groot <groot@kde.org> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Cc: John Wilson <solita2@solitarylight.com> Subject: Re: Mainboard suggestions? Message-ID: <200409151107.19224.groot@kde.org> In-Reply-To: <20040915003915.2489d1b0.solita2@solitarylight.com> References: <20040915003915.2489d1b0.solita2@solitarylight.com>
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On Wednesday 15 September 2004 07:39, 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. :)
There are really only two types: nvidia nforce 3 and via kt800 based boards.
There are a few sub-variations in those chipsets, but in general if you look
at the benchmarks on all them the differences within one family are marginal
at best (like 3%).
> 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.
It's hard to get away from all the builtins; most boards that I'd trust (ie.
not stuff from elitegroup) end up with all the bells and whistles. My
firewire ports lie idle as well.
> - Which is the better chipset for FreeBSD, the Via offering or the NVidia
> one?
nforce3 _had_ issues, that's for sure (oh, and I can't speak for any of the
RAID support).
> - 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?
The asus k8v SE has an sk0 onboard that had been reported to be wonky. I had
stability problems with it about a month ago, haven't recreated the problem
recently (mostly for lack of trying).
--
Don't worry, 't ain't no shame to be stupid - ol' mouse.
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