From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 26 14:33: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from akira.lanfear.com (akira.lanfear.com [208.12.11.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AA5337B422 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:32:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwlist@lanfear.com) Received: from sapporo.lanfear.com (h-64-105-36-216.snvacaid.covad.net [64.105.36.216]) by akira.lanfear.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA41723; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:32:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwlist@lanfear.com) Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:32:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Marc W Message-Id: <200104262132.OAA41723@akira.lanfear.com> To: John Turnbull , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Request advice on AMD CPU / motherboard combo for FreeBSD - jrt MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Mailer: Kiltdown 0.7 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 Kiltdown -- a free email client for X www.kiltdown.org -- it's what's underneath that counts. > ----------------------------- > From: John Turnbull > 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message