From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 15 09:07:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 190C116A4CE for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:07:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pandora.cs.kun.nl (pandora.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BC3E43D2F for ; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:07:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from groot@kde.org) Received: from odin.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.33] (helo=localhost) by pandora.cs.kun.nl (8.12.10/4.17) with ESMTP id i8F97O51010468; Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:07:24 +0200 (MEST) From: Adriaan de Groot To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:07:18 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <20040915003915.2489d1b0.solita2@solitarylight.com> In-Reply-To: <20040915003915.2489d1b0.solita2@solitarylight.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200409151107.19224.groot@kde.org> cc: John Wilson Subject: Re: Mainboard suggestions? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:07:27 -0000 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. GPG: FEA2 A3FE Adriaan de Groot