Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 15:45:29 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Comments on four mobos Message-ID: <15371.58473.302741.355417@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <200112031935.LAA22344@mina.soco.agilent.com> References: <20011201111939.B9285@neutrino.bsdhome.com> <200112031935.LAA22344@mina.soco.agilent.com>
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Darryl Okahata writes: > Brian Dean <bsd@bsdhome.com> wrote: > > > While not on your list, I bought an ASUS A7M266 mid-summer and haven't > > had any trouble. I'm not sure about the differences between the ATA266 > > which is on your list - but hey, it's only off by one letter :). > > While the A7M266 is an excellent motherboard (I, too, have one), > it's pretty expensive, and I'd like to point out that the chipset that > it uses (the AMD 760) is effectively obsolete. AMD puts out motherboard > chipsets mainly to promote their processors, and are (apparently) > intended to be used only until other the other chipset manufacturers > start producing decent chipsets (which they now are). Also note that Do any of those other supposedly "decent" chipsets include support for ECC DDR RAM? AFAIK, only AMD's chipsets support ECC. I'd be very happy to be wrong.. Having a computer without working ECC support is like a having loaded gun pointed at your foot. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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