Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 08:29:09 -0400 From: Freddie Cash <fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mainboard suggestions? Message-ID: <200409150829.10481.fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca> In-Reply-To: <20040915003915.2489d1b0.solita2@solitarylight.com> References: <20040915003915.2489d1b0.solita2@solitarylight.com>
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On September 15, 2004 01:39 am, John Wilson wrote: >From what I've been able to gather, the two best mainboards for the > AMD64 platform come from either Asus or MSI. My original goal was to > find a board with the minimum of additional features onboard, save for > sound and a NIC. Firewire is useless to me. The MSI Master series of mobos work very nicely with FreeBSD, both in 32-bit and 64-bit mode. We have a handful of the Master dual-AthlonMP boards, and a pair of the Master dual-Opteron boards. All deveices on the mobo as detected and usuable under FreeBSD 5.2.1 and 5.3. The VIA K8T800 chipset is very stable in our testing, and the SATA support is decent (didn't stress it much, but never had any problems with it). > - It seems that a lot of the MSI boards use Realtek audio and NIC's. > Are these any good? Are they at all supported? My understanding was > that Realtek was on the crappy side, but I've no personal experience > with them. The MSI boards we have don't use rl(4). The AthlonMP boards have fxp(4) NICs onboard, and the Opteron boards have bge(4) NICs. Don't know about the audio, though, as I disabled it in the BIOS before ever installing anything. -- Freddie Cash, CCNT CCLP Helpdesk / Network Support Tech. School District 73 (250) 377-HELP [377-4357] fcash-ml@sd73.bc.ca
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