From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 13 9:52:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mk-smarthost-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com (mk-smarthost-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com [212.74.112.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E4A937B404 for ; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 09:52:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [80.225.10.96] (helo=lineone.net) by mk-smarthost-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 16wQlL-000LCP-00; Sat, 13 Apr 2002 17:52:31 +0100 Message-ID: <3CB8623A.B0EA28E1@lineone.net> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 17:52:10 +0100 From: Jean-Mark Dupoux X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gregory@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Motherboard recommendations for ATHLON Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 I'm pretty sure Soltek's new board got rated "fastest board ever tested" in at least 2 reviews I read last month (sites/magazines), and had the extra advantage of a new-designed cut-out circuit to shutdown automatically should the CPU go over a critical temperature, for example if the fan failed Jean-Mark Dupoux jmdupoux_@_lineone.net >On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 10:07:14AM +0200, Grzegorz Czaplinski wrote: >> Hello! >> Can anyone recommend me a motherboard for AMD (ATHLON) CPU? >> I was thinking about ATHLON XP 1600+/266 or even 1800+/266, >> but I am not so sure about motherboards. Do any of you run >> a configuration with this CPUs under FreeBSD? I have heard,=20 >> Abit and Soltek are good. >> I found Soltek's SL-75DRV-5KT333 and Abit's NV7-133-R nForce415 >> Socket-A (RAID). >> Any experiences with these? >> Thanks, >> gregory > >Gregory, > >I'm running an XP 1800+ on an Abit KG-7 board. It's solid as a rock -- >zero stability problems in the six months I've had it. I don't know if >you >can still get them (it uses the AMD 760 chipset that I think has been >discontinued), but the newer Abit boards with VIA chipsets are probably >almost as good. > >I find the reviews on the various overclocking sites to be useful -- if >a >board/CPU remain stable when some maniac is overclocking them half to >death, they should be just fine when run at their rated speed :-) > > Scott > >--=20 >=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3>D=3D= >=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3>D=3D= >=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3>D=3D >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message