From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Dec 3 12:46: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1165937B417 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 12:46:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA10422 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 15:45:55 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.3/8.9.1) id fB3KjTg33387; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 15:45:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15371.58473.302741.355417@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 15:45:29 -0500 (EST) To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG ReplyTo: trimyourccs@loopback.net Subject: Re: Comments on four mobos In-Reply-To: <200112031935.LAA22344@mina.soco.agilent.com> References: <20011201111939.B9285@neutrino.bsdhome.com> <200112031935.LAA22344@mina.soco.agilent.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Darryl Okahata writes: > Brian Dean 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