From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 26 21:50:52 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 9895116A4CE for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:50:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mxfep02.bredband.com (mxfep02.bredband.com [195.54.107.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 347C243D5C for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:50:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lars.tunkrans@bredband.net) Received: from [192.168.245.231] ([213.112.167.92] [213.112.167.92]) by mxfep02.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20041026215050.WLSM44.mxfep02.bredband.com@[192.168.245.231]>; Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:50:50 +0200 Message-ID: <417EC623.6090900@bredband.net> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:48:19 +0200 From: Lars Tunkrans Organization: None User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041024 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Ernst W. Winter" References: <20041026173024.GB879@lobo.homeunix.org> <20041026180803.GA4202@dragon.nuxi.com> <20041026141407.481d4f17.feisal@uwi.tt> <20041026182524.GB1234@lobo.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <20041026182524.GB1234@lobo.homeunix.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MB ASUS 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: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:50:52 -0000 Ernst W. Winter wrote: > Thanks, the same has happen with the Nvidea3 250 I have here with a > Gigabyte MB, so I think I rather will use the ASUS again as I had > good experience with them all the time so far as well I will have to > put a box together for a customer that want a AMD64/754 with FreeBSD. > I have a Lancard in mine now and it works ok, but no sound. Hi, The advice I usually give these days is : Forget socket 754 - buy socket 939. Its faster with it's DUAL DIMM 128 bit memorybus. Its also the future, the New AMD Athlon64 4000+ and the FX-55 are both socket 939. Avoid the current batch of ASUS boards for FreeBSD. Most of them have Either or Both of the NVIDIA Nforce3 chipsets and the Marvel Yukon sk0 Ethernet chip. I bought the MSI K8T Neo2 FIR. with K8T800-PRO chipset and Realtek re0 Gigabit chip. works beautifully . Does a seti@home workunit in 2 hours and 15 minutes, with the Athlon64 3800+ CPU. Regards //Lars