Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 14:55:03 -0500 From: Trevor Sullivan <pcgeek86@gmail.com> To: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: need some advice Message-ID: <42EA8997.1030700@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050729134726.GA68096@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <20050729002602.65ff60bb.dick@nagual.st> <42E96BBB.1000809@gmail.com> <20050729134726.GA68096@lothlorien.nagual.st>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > On 28 Jul Trevor Sullivan wrote: > >> I would recommend purchasing an Athlon 64 3000+ Venice core. I >> just picked one of these up along with 2 gigs of ram and a 6600GT >> and it runs sooooooo nice. Not only that, but it's cheap. > > > I tend to switch to this 3000+ Venice core thing. Problem is > finding a motherboard that ALSO is fully supported by FreeBSD. It > seems lots of those 939 boards are not ;-( > > If you are running fbsd, which motherboard did you choose? > > Finding the rest is no problem ;-) > Well, I bought the ECS KN1 Extreme (awesome board). I didn't really check compatibility with FreeBSD because I run Windows XP on my client machines. The reasons I went with this board are that it is well featured, it was relatively cheap compared to other socket 939 boards, and I also learned that ECS manufactures boards for other companies that rebrand them. You can never be sure what you're actually buying, so I went with the real manufacturer if that makes any sense. Sorry I couldn't be of more help. Figured I'd at least evangelize the Venice core (good choice...it runs fast and cool! :-) Trevor -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQFC6omWoGycRpOgdeERA++yAKCNi/FwpBqbwVX4K/oRFFCE5ftsogCgt6ls dcfvX2f01ytCFpJLSX2vcHk= =2Bge -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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