Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 15:53:43 -0800 From: ray@redshift.com To: "Felix 'buebo' Kakrow" <buebo@buebo.de>,freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Mainboard for amd64 (and some other questions) Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.20051103155343.00a9d7d8@pop.redshift.com> In-Reply-To: <947F0ED4-0D57-4B7E-AC5D-41C3E4A664F5@buebo.de>
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At 06:40 PM 11/3/2005 +0100, Felix 'buebo' Kakrow wrote: | Hi, | I'm looking for a Mainboard for an amd64 desktop machine. I know the | list of supported mainboards on freebsd.org and I'f tried to find a | something with google, but the combination of PCI-Express and fully | (or even mostly) supported seems to be very hard to find. | | Iam looking for board with a fast chipset (something like the | nForce4), SATA, gigabit ethernet and sound on-board supported in | RELENG-6. | | SATA-Raid is not need, allthough it would certanly nice to have it. I | have some spare Soundcards and NICs so it would be ok Sound or | Ethernet just don't work at the moment as long as there's the | perspective that they will in the not to distant future and not only | in current. | | Can anybody recommend a mainboard? | | I'm planning on dual booting i386 and amd64 for the time beeing and | switch over fully to amd64 when everything I need is working (OO.o | for example). | | At the moment I'm in favour of an Athlon X2, is this machine | supported with both cores in i386 (with a SMP-Kernel of course)? | | Aside from this I hear that there's some efford to port the nvidia | binary driver to amd64, so a nvidia graphics card seems to be a good | choice here (game performance under windows is not totally | unimportand to me ;-)). I do like the GigaByte GV-NX66128DP because | it's fanless, reasonally priced and has a realistic performance, but | I'm not sure about it because I have no idea if I'll ever get some 3D- | Support under amd64. | | Since FBSD is my main system for getting stuff done (I'm also toying | around with Linux from time to time) at the moment I don't want to | buy unsupported hardware, but on the other hand my last mainboard | died and I can't wait to long with getting something new, so there's | a timefactor... | | Thanks in advance. | | Felix | -- | Guns don't kill people. Rappers do. Hi Felix, I recently built a new desktop and used the Tyan S2875 dual Opteron board. It's a fantastic motherboard. I did have some issues with an IDE NEC DVD burner on the IDE channel, but once I switched to using an SATA -> IDE adapter, the problem wasn't an issue. If you would like any other info, feel free to write. Ray
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