From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jan 10 10:55:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from richard2.pil.net (richard2.pil.net [207.8.164.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7870615328 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2000 10:55:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from up@3.am) Received: (qmail 38717 invoked by uid 1825); 10 Jan 2000 18:55:47 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Jan 2000 18:55:47 -0000 Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 13:55:47 -0500 (EST) From: X-Sender: up@richard2.pil.net To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gigabyte Athlon motherboard In-Reply-To: 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 On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Rick Hamell wrote: > > 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. As long as we're on the subject of motherboards for FreeBSD, I'd love some feedback on higher-end server boards with integrated SCSI and Ethernet, as well as console redirection to the serial ports. I've been using the Intel L440GX+ with pretty good results, but I was wondering what else there is, now that there are 133Mhz memory busses, etc. James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor up@3.am http://3.am ========================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message