Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 20:21:34 +0000 From: "Frank Shute" <frank@esperance-linux.co.uk> To: lars <lars@gmx.at> Cc: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: motherboard recommendations for 6.0 Message-ID: <20060206202134.GA19004@melon.veggie.com> In-Reply-To: <20060206112043.GA26345@storage.mine.nu> References: <20060203181157.50690.qmail@web60012.mail.yahoo.com> <20060206112043.GA26345@storage.mine.nu>
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On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 12:20:43PM +0100, lars wrote: > > Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> wrote: > > It's time to set up another box to act as file server and I'm at the > > crucial motherboard-choice stage. I'm looking for recommendations for an > > i386 single-cpu mid-price board that work well with FreeBSD 6.0-stable. I > > don't see the point in buying an Intel cpu but if you do then please make > > your point. Thanks a lot. > > > > -- > > Peter > ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe > http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=ODk5 > > Why? Because it works with FreeBSD, it's cool [C/F], it's fast > and it has all the necessary connectors. > > I use it as a desktop. I built a workstation using an Asus A8N-E and it works fine. It looks like mine is a previous iteration of the same board. The onboard NIC didn't work though, so I stumped up for a new card: 3C905 Running 6.0-RELEASE fine. It's got plenty of room for hard drives (4 SATA and 2 legacy on mine) should you choose to use RAID. It takes a goodly variety of AMD CPUs. (Socket 939) BTW, I used an Antec Sonata case which is probably also a good buy. Quiet with rubber mounted drive bays and little fighting required to fix things in the case. -- Frank echo "f r a n k @ e s p e r a n c e - l i n u x . c o . u k" | sed 's/ //g' --->PGP keyID: 0x10BD6F4B<---
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