From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 15 11:47:38 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 73C6016A4CE for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 11:47:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mta1.siol.net (mta1.siol.net [193.189.160.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2E7F43D58 for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 11:47:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tomaz.borstnar@over.net) Received: from edge1.siol.net ([10.10.10.210]) by mta1.siol.net with ESMTP id <20050415114735.UEBF19477.mta1.siol.net@edge1.siol.net> for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:47:35 +0200 Received: from game.over.net ([193.189.169.9]) by edge1.siol.net with ESMTP id <20050415114734.OHFS13274.edge1.siol.net@game.over.net> for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:47:34 +0200 Received: from BSN-77-70-7.dsl.siol.net ([193.77.70.7]:4737 "EHLO convert rfc822-to-8bit; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:47:23 +0200 Message-Id: <6.2.1.2.0.20050415134352.03eaa320@193.189.169.9> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.1.2 Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:47:15 +0200 To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org From: Tomaz Borstnar In-Reply-To: <20050414172855.GA54566@atreides.freenix.no> References: <20050414172855.GA54566@atreides.freenix.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-OverNet-MailScanner-Information: Contact mailscanner@over.net for more information X-OverNet-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-OverNet-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=2.965, required 5, AWL -0.23, HELO_DYNAMIC_HCC 1.54, RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL 1.66) X-OverNet-MailScanner-SpamScore: ss X-MailScanner-From: tomaz.borstnar@over.net 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: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 11:47:38 -0000 At 19:28 14.4.2005, shamz wrote: > > 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. nope, he is not. I have few good successes with nforce2-250 boards. Yes, nForce3-150 is extremely broken chipset which is still present in many currently selling amd64 notebooks. But nForce3-250 seems fine for most uses. I have good experience with both VIA KT800Pro and nForce3-250 chipsets. Tomaz