From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 27 06:50:06 2004 Return-Path: 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 B951916A4CE for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 06:50:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dsl-mail.kamp.net (mail.kamp-dsl.de [195.62.99.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0282B43D1F for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 06:50:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ewinter@lobo.homeunix.org) Received: (qmail 5974 invoked by uid 513); 27 Oct 2004 06:50:07 -0000 Received: from ewinter@lobo.homeunix.org by dsl-mail by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.21 Clear:RC:1(82.141.58.65):SA:0(-4.9/5.0):. Processed in 0.809731 secs); 27 Oct 2004 06:50:07 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 Received: from unknown (HELO lobo.homeunix.org) (82.141.58.65) by dsl-mail.kamp.net with SMTP; 27 Oct 2004 06:50:06 -0000 Received: from lobo.homeunix.org (localhost.homeunix.org [127.0.0.1]) by lobo.homeunix.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i9R6pf9Y054217; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 08:51:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ewinter@lobo.homeunix.org) Received: (from ewinter@localhost) by lobo.homeunix.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i9R6pevh054216; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 08:51:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ewinter) Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 08:51:40 +0200 From: "Ernst W. Winter" To: Lars Tunkrans Message-ID: <20041027065140.GA54188@lobo.homeunix.org> References: <20041026173024.GB879@lobo.homeunix.org> <20041026180803.GA4202@dragon.nuxi.com> <20041026141407.481d4f17.feisal@uwi.tt> <20041026182524.GB1234@lobo.homeunix.org> <417EC623.6090900@bredband.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <417EC623.6090900@bredband.net> X-Phone: + 49-89-3075-6800 Organization: FreeBSD Evangelist X-Operating-System: FreeBSD lobo.homeunix.org 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MB ASUS X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Ernst W. Winter" List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 06:50:06 -0000 On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Lars Tunkrans wrote: > Ernst W. Winter wrote: > > >Thanks, the same has happen with the Nvidea3 250 I have here with > >a Gigabyte MB, so I think I rather will use the ASUS again as I > >had good experience with them all the time so far as well I will > >have to put a box together for a customer that want a AMD64/754 > >with FreeBSD. I have a Lancard in mine now and it works ok, but > >no sound. > > Hi, > > The advice I usually give these days is : > > Forget socket 754 - buy socket 939. Its faster with it's DUAL > DIMM 128 bit memorybus. > Its also the future, the New > AMD Athlon64 4000+ and > the FX-55 are both socket > 939. > > Avoid the current batch of ASUS boards for FreeBSD. Most of them > have Either or Both of the NVIDIA Nforce3 chipsets and the Marvel > Yukon sk0 Ethernet chip. > > I bought the MSI K8T Neo2 FIR. with K8T800-PRO chipset and > Realtek re0 Gigabit chip. > works beautifully . Does a seti@home workunit in 2 hours and 15 > minutes, with the Athlon64 3800+ CPU. > Thanks, that sounds nicer. I wonder if there would be something like a "HW buyers guide for the FreeBSD AMD64" around somewhere as that would help people that switch frim AMD32. Still I have to be content with the one I have at home, but hope that the problems will be solved soon. Again I will take your advice and talk to the customer and let them know. Ernst