From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 14 17:30:54 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C3B116A4CE for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:30:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freenix.no (atreides.freenix.no [212.33.142.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C843B43D54 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:30:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from shamz@atreides.freenix.no) Received: from atreides.freenix.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freenix.no (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j3EHT1tI065190 for ; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:29:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from shamz@atreides.freenix.no) Received: (from shamz@localhost) by atreides.freenix.no (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j3EHStrT065189 for freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:28:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from shamz) Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:28:55 +0200 From: shamz To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050414172855.GA54566@atreides.freenix.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p2 X-Philosophy: If you can read this, you're too close. X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.83, clamav-milter version 0.83 on atreides.freenix.no X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: Recommendations? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:30:54 -0000 > Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: >Jung-uk Kim writes: >> Stay away from nForce chipsets. > >Please stop spreading this little piece of disinformation. nForce3 >motherboards such as the Asus SK8N should work fine. Unfortunately you are almost totally alone in this assessment. Everyone from the original amd64 porter on down has basically said, "stay away" from nforce3 based motherboards. A quick search in the archive will give you more than enough technical reasons as well as a litany of complaints and frustration at forcing the nforce3 boards to work in spite of the many good reasons why they shouldn't. This is in no way disinformation. Sorry, DES, if I didn't know better, I'd think you were trying to cover up for some poor purchasing choices, hehe... Anyone interested should dig through the archives and find the past discussions as well as the previously maintained list of motherboards and users' experiences with them. I'd exstimate that you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who has an nforce3-based board and would recommend them to anyone else (unless they use windows...) > >DES >--=20 >Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no -- Yours truly, Shaun D. Jurrens shaun@shamz.net