From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 10 22: 5: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9D8437B423 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 22:04:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA18156; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 23:04:51 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010410190406.044d5be0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 19:05:57 -0600 To: Peter , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Good Motherboards? In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I've just recently put together a new system using an Epox motherboard and a 1.1 GHz Athlon "T-Bird." It's a screamer. No incompatibility problems. Only thing that might be a conern is that the Via KT133 chipset doesn't support ECC. So you wouldn't want to use this as a server. But memory errors are rare enough that it's fine as a client. --Brett At 04:57 PM 4/10/2001, Peter wrote: >I'm planning on upgrading my computer [at least the motherboard] > >My question is what have you guys found to be good motherboards? >Or which ones should I definitely not touch? > >I'm looking for one that can handle about an 700+ mhz processor >Currently I've been looking at AMD [Athlon and Thunderbird] as they >are much cheaper than Intel Pentium III's. > >So what are good mobos for that kinda processor power? [right now that is >all I care about, everything else depends on the price of the mobo etc etc, >but for now first thing is cpu speed].....Where is a good place to buy them >online [motherboard/cpu combo] -- I'm looking only to spend about 200 >[maybe $300 if it's really good] ....and of course I'm looking for one that >will let FreeBSD run on it with no major problems. [Want to build a good >desktop system [yes FBSD makes a better desktop than linux :) ] ] > >on a side now, what is ftp.cdrom.com/freebsd.org running just curious. > > > >_________________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message