From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Sep 8 12:29:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76B33151EE for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 12:29:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA17228 for freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 21:28:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 21:28:50 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199909081928.VAA17228@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD K-7 MB recommendations? Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Smith wrote in list.freebsd-hardware: > You're misinformed; Asus will be shipping a K7 board shortly. Yep, "shortly", that's what they said for a few weeks. I don't think it will be really available any time soon. The GBT, MSI and FIC boards are available _now_, as well as the actual CPUs. > > I am thinking of upgrading my MB/CPU combo soon, I am going to grab the > > 500 Mhz athlon since it's the cheapest. My problems is I don't know which > > MB. There are only 3 to choose from, and I am really mad asus and tyan are > > not on the athlon bandwagon. FIC, GB, and MSI are the choices, and I have > > no experience with any of them. Gigabyte I have heard of but the other two > > sound very generic. > > > > Feedback on the 3 vendors would be appreciated, so I could choose who > > makes the most solid MB that works best with FBSD. There's test and comparison of those three boards at Tom's: http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboard/99q3/990818/index.html Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message