Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:58:11 +0100 From: Adriaan de Groot <groot@kde.org> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Cc: Mikey Galum <recompile2@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: recom for newegg amd64 box? Message-ID: <200601041158.16634.groot@kde.org> In-Reply-To: <20060104034056.45903.qmail@web54315.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060104034056.45903.qmail@web54315.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wednesday 04 January 2006 04:40, Mikey Galum wrote:
> Can someone recommend a simple reliable amd64
> motherboard that's
> readily available as a bundle or even a prebuilt
> system?
Straightforward, simple, reliable, has worked since 5.1-R? Via KT800 based=
=20
boards, or KT890. How to find those boards? Look for a V in the name :) A8V=
,=20
K8V, that kind of thing. And they're getting harder to find (and come to=20
think of it, might be socket 754 which you don't want).
=46eatureful, can be a total bitch to set up, working nicely in 6.0-R? nFor=
ce4=20
based boards will do, and they're _everywhere_. But do some searching first=
-=20
the Asus A8N-VM and variants will have you hex-editing BIOS code before it=
=20
will boot anything but Windows in a useful way.
> I would have hoped something like an asus A8N32-sli
> dlx with
> athlon 64x2 3800+ 2x512MB RAM, etc would be nice but I
> haven't
> been able to learn if this is supported.
Half the battle is getting reports for those boards that _do_ work. Not=20
everybody bothers to report them.
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These are your friends - Adem
GPG: FEA2 A3FE Adriaan de Groot
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