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From: Wille Harald <harald.wille@students.jku.at>
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On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 03:15:30PM -0400, Glenn Sieb wrote:
> Greetings.
> 
> I'm looking at upgrading my server hardware. I'd love to use an AMD 
> Athlon64 (939 probably). I also am a fan of ABit motherboards (I've been 
> using them for years now).
> 
> I'm considering the ABit AN8 
> http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/techspec.php?categories=1&model=259--which 
> has SATA RAID, up to 4gb of RAM, GbE and some other things I don't 
> particularly care about for a server.
> 
> I was just curious if anyone out there's running the AN8, and if so, how 
> it works with FreeBSD 5.x? If not, what do you run with your Athlon64? :-)

I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 on a MSI K8T Neo2, Athlon64 3000+, 512MB RAM.
The MOBO is low priced and very stable (GE, S-ATA etc.)
(Chipset is VIA K8T800 Pro and Socket 939)

No problems with FreeBSD for now and the performance is also very good.