From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 4 08:09:34 2005 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 B175F16A41F for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 08:09:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05F3143D45 for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 08:09:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8489TG0021202; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 01:09:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.NUXI.org) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id j8489TcR021201; Sun, 4 Sep 2005 01:09:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2005 01:09:29 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Ken Gunderson Message-ID: <20050904080928.GD20880@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <20050816121701.74816.qmail@web54306.mail.yahoo.com> <4301E39F.1050500@samsco.org> <20050816204229.758827a5.kgunders@teamcool.net> <4302AA97.8030002@samsco.org> <20050816235300.4dc8924e.kgunders@teamcool.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050816235300.4dc8924e.kgunders@teamcool.net> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Asus A8V-E Deluxe discontinued (was Re: Hi) X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 08:09:34 -0000 On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 11:53:00PM -0600, Ken Gunderson wrote: > On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:10:15 -0600 Scott Long wrote: > > > I just noticed that Asus is discontinuing this mainboard so if you've > > > been wanting one it's a good time to get one while you can. Might look > > > for them to be priced for clearance as well... > > > > I forgot to mention that this board doesn't support dual core chips. > > That's probably why it's being discontinued. > > Which seems a bit incongruous at first blush since per Asus website the > A8V-E SE does support dual core and both boards use the same VIA K8T890 > chipset but I guess there's some other stumbling block. The first revision of the K8T890 has bug that prevents the use of dual-core CPU's. The A8V-E SE (second edition) uses the newer silicon revision. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)