From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 30 6:30:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cav.logica.co.uk (cav.logica.co.uk [158.234.10.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D20537B401 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 06:30:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from eckert.logica.co.uk (eckert.logica.co.uk [158.234.10.17]) by cav.logica.co.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA07591 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 14:30:25 GMT Received: by eckert.logica.co.uk with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 14:30:04 -0000 Message-ID: From: "Newton, Harry" To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Christmas present OR hardware recommendations Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 14:29:58 -0000 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm going to buy myself a new machine for Christmas to replace an elderly and skip-rescued Pentium 133. I was looking at a Thunderbird/Athlon 950 together with either a Asus AV7 or Abit KT7 motherboard. These boards use the VIA KT133 (Via 686A) chipsets. The Abit board uses a HTP 370 ide controller, whilst the Asus board uses a Promise ATA100 ide controller. Having looked at the archives I think there are a few potential pitfalls, and I was wondering what their current status is: + bug in timer code, means can't use APM + DMA access with VIA chipsets: some HD & MB combinations won't work + ATA-100 modes: will they work ? + memory: some memory won't work well with Athlons. Or should I stay with Intel ? Related advice is gratefully received. Thanks, Harry PS. Can I use a Soundblaster Live 1024 ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message