Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:32:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Marc W <mwlist@lanfear.com> To: John Turnbull <johnrt@home.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Request advice on AMD CPU / motherboard combo for FreeBSD - jrt Message-ID: <200104262132.OAA41723@akira.lanfear.com>
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I'm running a 1000Mhz Thunderbird on an A7V motherboard with PC133
SDRAMs, and it rocks. Don't recommend IDE on such a system though --
it's pretty painful with the latencies ...
I plan to buy a DDR memory system next ... bang for the buck, the
athlons are hard to beat.
marc.
Marc W, San Francisco, CA
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> -----------------------------
> From: John Turnbull <johnrt@home.com>
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Request advice on AMD CPU / motherboard combo for FreeBSD
- jrt
> Sent: 04/26/01 10:20>
>
>
> I gather that there may be some issues with the newer AMD CPUs or Via
> chip sets, (or was that Via chip sets and various brands of hard
drives)
> and running FreeBSD.
>
> What specific combinations of new AMD CPU (say 800 MHz and up),
> motherboards and hard drive are generally considered safe for a
FreeBSD
> box?
>
>
> Are there any combinations that are known to be bad?
>
>
> Thank you all in advance. John T
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