Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 18:34:48 -0700 From: Rob <europax@home.com> To: Neill Robins <freebsd@nc.rr.com> Cc: Diego Rodrigo Neufert <diego@magicwebdesign.com.br>, Peter <fbsdq@yahoo.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good Motherboards? Message-ID: <3AD50638.AD1CF285@home.com> References: <SAK.2001.04.10.essrmtpk@support10> <0104110859530Q.17444@belzebu.magicwebdesign.com.br> <1340791114.20010411082609@nc.rr.com>
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I bought an Iwill DDR board with a 1.2Ghz Athlon. In a very unscientific test, I found that it encoded MP3's ten times faster than my 650Mhz P3 laptop using Gogo. Ripping and encoding CD's is now rate limited totally by the CD player :) Rob. Neill Robins wrote: > > Wednesday, April 11, 2001, 7:59:53 AM, Diego Rodrigo Neufert wrote: > DRN> I think that the best Athlon TBIRD mobo is Asus A7V... > DRN> Just dont know if it runs with FBSD, but with my RH7 it's ok... > > Yes, the A7V works with FreeBSD, and an 850TBIRD is *fast* > > As Brett mentioned, it doesn't support ECC memory (The KT133 chipset) > and comes with the Promise ATA-100 controller. > > As for what ftp.cdrom.com runs, all I could dig up was a Xeon/500 with > 4GB memory and 1/2 TB of RAID 5 storage. I used to have a link to what > the machine was, but I can't seem to find it. > > -- > Good Luck, > -Neill > freebsd@nc.rr.com > > DRN> On Tuesday 10 April 2001 19:57, you wrote: > >> I'm planning on upgrading my computer [at least the motherboard] > >> > >> My question is what have you guys found to be good motherboards? > >> Or which ones should I definitely not touch? > >> > >> I'm looking for one that can handle about an 700+ mhz processor > >> Currently I've been looking at AMD [Athlon and Thunderbird] as they > >> are much cheaper than Intel Pentium III's. > >> > >> So what are good mobos for that kinda processor power? [right now that is > >> all I care about, everything else depends on the price of the mobo etc etc, > >> but for now first thing is cpu speed].....Where is a good place to buy them > >> online [motherboard/cpu combo] -- I'm looking only to spend about 200 > >> [maybe $300 if it's really good] ....and of course I'm looking for one that > >> will let FreeBSD run on it with no major problems. [Want to build a good > >> desktop system [yes FBSD makes a better desktop than linux :) ] ] > >> > >> on a side now, what is ftp.cdrom.com/freebsd.org running just curious. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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