From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jan 10 7:49: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mail4.aracnet.com (mail4.aracnet.com [216.99.193.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1D5114C9E for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 07:49:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamellr@aracnet.com) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (IDENT:root@shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail4.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA03798; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 07:49:02 -0800 Received: from localhost by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id HAA18078; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 07:49:28 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: shell1.aracnet.com: hamellr owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 07:49:28 -0800 (PST) From: Rick Hamell To: Borja Marcos Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gigabyte Athlon motherboard In-Reply-To: <3879BD8F.3EB381B7@sarenet.es> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I'm considering a Gigabyte GA-71X with an AMD Athlon CPU. > It will run *exclusively* FreeBSD, and the dealer has said me that > they have observed stability problems with Windows. > > Does this CPU/motherboard work well with FreeBSD? I would > use a 500 or 700 MHz CPU. I've exerienced about an 8% loss on these motherboards due to minor power surges alone, not to mention a multitude of small problems. I highly suggest you go with Soltek or Asus, both work great under FreeBSD and Windows if now problems. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message