From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 15 15: 6:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (mta05-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1D6437B421 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 15:06:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from lungfish.ntlworld.com ([62.253.153.99]) by mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20011115230619.AHH27057.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@lungfish.ntlworld.com>; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 23:06:19 +0000 Received: from boog.goatsucker.org (boog.goatsucker.org [192.168.1.3]) by lungfish.ntlworld.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fAFN6H856120; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 23:06:17 GMT (envelope-from scott@boog.goatsucker.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by boog.goatsucker.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA03150; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 23:05:46 GMT (envelope-from scott) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 23:05:46 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell To: Charles Burns Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some h/w recommendations please... Message-ID: <20011115230545.A275@localhost> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from burnscharlesn@hotmail.com on Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 03:26:40AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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