From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 4 10:58:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ABCF16A41F for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 10:58:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from groot@kde.org) Received: from pandora.cs.kun.nl (pandora.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60ACA43D5C for ; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 10:58:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from groot@kde.org) Received: from odin.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.33] (helo=localhost.englishbreakfastnetwork.org) by pandora.cs.kun.nl (8.13.5/5.7) with ESMTP id k04AwHZM008144; Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:58:17 +0100 (MET) From: Adriaan de Groot To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:58:11 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060104034056.45903.qmail@web54315.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060104034056.45903.qmail@web54315.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1251287.yoUbo9BDxk"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200601041158.16634.groot@kde.org> X-Spam-Score: 1.833 (*) BAYES_50,FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.48 on 131.174.33.4 Cc: Mikey Galum Subject: Re: recom for newegg amd64 box? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 10:58:21 -0000 --nextPart1251287.yoUbo9BDxk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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. =2D-=20 These are your friends - Adem GPG: FEA2 A3FE Adriaan de Groot --nextPart1251287.yoUbo9BDxk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDu6pIdqzuAf6io/4RArOuAKChdpCmmlgficGUAVivr39N5hIcSACfd5IT 55akoqOChsjIcSq8MGdO8so= =WgkX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1251287.yoUbo9BDxk--