Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 23:05:46 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: Charles Burns <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some h/w recommendations please... Message-ID: <20011115230545.A275@localhost> In-Reply-To: <F176p3R35ocSyXz41jD00001e74@hotmail.com>; from burnscharlesn@hotmail.com on Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:26:40AM -0700 References: <F176p3R35ocSyXz41jD00001e74@hotmail.com>
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On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:26:40AM -0700, Charles Burns wrote: > As far as AthlonXP chips, I generally recommend that people get motherboards > that use 100% AMD chipsets (both southbridge and northbridge). Most AMD > stability problems that have popped up over the years seem to be from VIA > chipsets. While the AMD760 isn't the fastest chipset on earth, and while it > has been end-of-life'd by AMD recently, it is mature and reliable. The > alternatives are the VIA KT-266A (the fastest available now), the SIS > chipset... Which is made by SIS... Which has a horrible track record, and > then the NVidia NForce, which is so immature that it doesn't yet actually > exist in the form of a buyable product. Are there any such boards? All the so-called AMD760 boards I've seen reviewed have used a VIA southbridge, supposedly for cost reasons... of course I haven't really looked much at the higher end stuff like the Tyan MP boards (overkill for my new workstation, I think). Your post just confirmed most of the component choices I'm about to lay out a bunch of money on, so many thanks for brightening my day :-) Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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