From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 2 23:28:27 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 284D916A41C for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 23:28:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd01@dgmm.net) Received: from lon-mail-1.gradwell.net (lon-mail-1.gradwell.net [193.111.201.125]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80F1843D49 for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 23:28:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd01@dgmm.net) Received: from 82-39-75-228.cable.ubr02.jarr.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.39.75.228] helo=webmaker@asgard.uk) by lon-mail-1.gradwell.net with esmtp (Gradwell gwh-smtpd 1.183) id 429f9390.14443.1eb for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 3 Jun 2005 00:17:36 +0100 (envelope-sender ) From: dgmm To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 00:17:34 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <200506022209.31870.freebsd01@dgmm.net> <429F847B.8040402@wcborstel.nl> In-Reply-To: <429F847B.8040402@wcborstel.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506030017.35340.freebsd01@dgmm.net> Subject: Re: New motherboard advice X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 23:28:27 -0000 On Thursday 02 June 2005 23:13, Jorn Argelo wrote: > dgmm wrote: > >Has anyone installed FreeBSD using this board? > > > > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Gigabyte 8S648FX -RZ ATX SiS648FX P4 Motherboard. > > > >http://www.digiconcepts.com/gigabyte_motherboards_105.htm > > > >SiS 648FX chipset > >Processor: Socket 478 for Intel=AE Pentium=AE 4 processor > >Chipset: > >North-bridge: SiS648FX > >South-bridge: SiS963L MuTIOL=AE Media I/O > >CMedia 9761A Codec chip > >ICS1883 LAN chip > > > >Any hardware incompatibilities I should know of? =A0Should I avoid it li= ke > > the plague? Or is it a nice, reliable, stable board? > > > >I don't see much mention in the hardware compatibility list for SiS > > chipsets. =A0 is there somewhere else I can look to find "recommended" > > motherboards? > > > >I'm intending putting an Intel P4 3.2GHz CPU in and DDR400 ram. > > > >It'd be nice if all the onboard stuff would play nicely with FreeBSD > > =A0 > > Just standard hardware with no exotic devices. Should work out of the > box. I use a SiS chipset in my server as well. Maybe your LAN chip will > not be reconized out of hte box but I think it will. There's just one > way to find out ;) Thanks for that confirmation. The NIC is the least of the compatibility=20 worries. Plenty of decent spares lying around :-) > And I'm not sure what you want to do with it, but if you want to make it > a server a 3.2 Ghz is way too much processing power. I have a 2Ghz with > 400 MHz FSB and it's still "too fast". It's a workstation. General day to day use but I often transcode video fro= m=20 VCR and camcorder to DVD. My "server" is an AMD k6-2/350 ;-) =2D-=20 Dave