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On 16 May 2005 at 15:15, Glenn Sieb wrote:

> I'm looking at upgrading my server hardware. I'd love to use an AMD 
> Athlon64 (939 probably). I also am a fan of ABit motherboards (I've been 
> using them for years now).
> 
> I'm considering the ABit AN8 
> http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/techspec.php?categories=1&model=259--which 
> has SATA RAID, up to 4gb of RAM, GbE and some other things I don't 
> particularly care about for a server.
> 
> I was just curious if anyone out there's running the AN8, and if so, how 
> it works with FreeBSD 5.x? If not, what do you run with your Athlon64? :-)

Have you considered the ASUS A8V-DX K8T800?  I have this m/b, 1GB of 
RAM and an AMD 64 Athlon 3200+.    It's still running an i386 kernel, 
but that will be upgraded soon to a 64 bit kernel.

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