From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 7 8: 2:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from luke.immure.com (luke.immure.com [207.8.42.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C373337BFF3 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 08:02:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bob@luke.immure.com) Received: (from bob@localhost) by luke.immure.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA48107; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 10:02:03 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bob) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 10:02:03 -0500 From: Bob Willcox To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" Cc: Bob Willcox , Linh Pham , "Chad R. Larson" , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VIA chip set Message-ID: <20000707100203.A48036@luke.immure.com> Reply-To: Bob Willcox References: <20000707075015.A45531@luke.immure.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from ejs@bfd.com on Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 07:56:24AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 07:56:24AM -0700, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Bob Willcox wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 05:01:16PM -0700, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > > > On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Linh Pham wrote: > > > > > > > Does anyone know if the boxed AMD processors that they are including the > > > > new Thunderbird varieties? > > > > > > Almost definitely not, since the Thunderbird motherboards are a very > > > scarce commodity at the moment. > > > > What has changed with the Thunderbird motherboards? > > They've gone back to a socket instead of a slot-A. Of course, it's > socket-A, which is different than anything that has come before it, so > no preexisting motherboards will work. Ahh, that change. All of my Athlon MBs and CPUs (including thunderbird) are slot-A. I haven't even seen any socket-A MBs or CPUs yet. FWI, Slot-A thunderbird CPUs are available in the OEM channels (which is what I have), and they work just fine (for me) in Slot-A MBs. Bob -- Bob Willcox Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else -- bob@immure.com unless it is an enemy. Austin, TX -- A. Einstein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message