Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 14:29:58 -0000 From: "Newton, Harry" <NewtonHa@logica.com> To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Christmas present OR hardware recommendations Message-ID: <D19BCFEB340CD211801300A0C9CFB945B7EAA1@kilburn.logica.co.uk>
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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
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