From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 19 23:59:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9211616A4CE for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 23:59:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mxfep01.bredband.com (mxfep01.bredband.com [195.54.107.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B9F943D2D for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2004 23:59:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lars.tunkrans@bredband.net) Received: from [192.168.245.231] ([213.112.167.208] [213.112.167.208]) by mxfep01.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20041119235932.CNNH16147.mxfep01.bredband.com@[192.168.245.231]> for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 00:59:32 +0100 Message-ID: <419E88C8.3030504@bredband.net> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 00:59:04 +0100 From: Lars Tunkrans Organization: None User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041024 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org References: <20041119203821.GE4339@opteron.dglawrence.com> <20041119205422.GA1010@lobo.homeunix.org> <20041119205443.GF4339@opteron.dglawrence.com> In-Reply-To: <20041119205443.GF4339@opteron.dglawrence.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: nForce 3 150 vs. VIA K8T800 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 23:59:35 -0000 David G. Lawrence wrote: >>On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, David G. Lawrence wrote: >> >> >>>So, given a choice between an AMD64 motherboard with nVidia nForce >>>3 150 chipset or VIA K8T800 chipset, which one actually works and >>>what are the tradeoffs? >>> >> >>well I had a Gigabyte G-K8NS with a socket 754 and nForce 3 250 >>chipset but switched to a ASUS A8V delux socket 939 with a chipset >>VIA K8T800 and the latter is better as well more things seem to work >>with less down sides. I think the latter is much better with the >>dual channel memory and runs faster. But then again this is only my >>recent experience with AMD64. Today I tried the VIA 8237 SATA I/F for the first time on my socket 939 K8T800-PRO MSI K8T Neo2 Fir Board, it worked. So now I know that : the K8T800-Pro is recgonized as VIA_K8 the re0 Gigabit Ethernet I/F works the usb I/F'es works the PATA and SATA works. the sigmatel STAC9708 AC97 chip is reconized. ( although I use the EMU10K1 ) the FireWire ( via VT6306 ) i/F is regonized, I have yet to try it. Basically I have not had any of the problems with onboard NIC's that seems to be abundant with the Nforce3 chipset. Not any ACPI-APIC problems. Choose socket 939 because of its superior DualDIMM Memory bus. Regards //Lars