From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 30 6:46:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bumper.jellybaby.net (bumper.jellybaby.net [194.159.247.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23E7037B401 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 06:46:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from simond@localhost) by bumper.jellybaby.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) id OAA60468; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 14:46:49 GMT (envelope-from simond) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 14:46:49 +0000 From: simond@irrelevant.org To: "Newton, Harry" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Christmas present OR hardware recommendations Message-ID: <20001130144649.F53408@irrelevant.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from NewtonHa@logica.com on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 02:29:58PM -0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 02:29:58PM -0000, Newton, Harry wrote: > 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 APM works fine on my A7V > + DMA access with VIA chipsets: some HD & MB combinations won't work Working fine here with an IBM 20gb drive > + ATA-100 modes: will they work ? Working fine with an IBM 46.1gb drive :) > + memory: some memory won't work well with Athlons. As far as I know any PC100 or PC133 RAM will work on the A7V > Or should I stay with Intel ? Related advice is gratefully received. Personally I'm really happy with my A7V :) -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message