Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 20:16:38 +0100 From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org> To: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> Cc: Felix 'buebo' Kakrow <buebo@buebo.de>, freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Mainboard for amd64 (and some other questions) Message-ID: <1131045398.4446.4.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20051103191308.GA14713@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <947F0ED4-0D57-4B7E-AC5D-41C3E4A664F5@buebo.de> <20051103191308.GA14713@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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--=-cKJGxk6YA5jlXGF0C0J6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Roland Smith p=ED=B9e v =E8t 03. 11. 2005 v 20:13 +0100: > On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 06:40:05PM +0100, Felix 'buebo' Kakrow wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm looking for a Mainboard for an amd64 desktop machine. I know the =20 > > list of supported mainboards on freebsd.org and I'f tried to find a =20 > > something with google, but the combination of PCI-Express and fully =20 > > (or even mostly) supported seems to be very hard to find. >=20 > AFAIK, FreeBSD nor Xorg supports PCI-Express yet. The happy existence of a PCI-Express based Geforce card in my coworker's FreeBSD workstation would suggest otherwise. > > Iam looking for board with a fast chipset (something like the =20 > > nForce4), SATA, gigabit ethernet and sound on-board supported in =20 > > RELENG-6. >=20 > Avoid nForce chipsets; they don't work well with most free OS/s. Avoid nForce 2 and 3 series. nForce 4 seems to be quite okay. > > Can anybody recommend a mainboard? >=20 > Anything with a VIA K8T800 will work well. I've used an MSI NEO FSR > (MS-6702) and a Asus A8V DeLuxe, and they both work. http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html --=20 Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz> <pav@FreeBSD.org> Squish. Larger than the normal icky things, and twice as icky. --=-cKJGxk6YA5jlXGF0C0J6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDamIWntdYP8FOsoIRAv3KAKC98J9wIDLUr+jP/KqATVnM9UC5CgCgnMvi L89xHFOlGBhzfdxw3EM0JLw= =zbte -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-cKJGxk6YA5jlXGF0C0J6--
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