Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 01:24:33 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@chello.cz> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any experience with "Asus A8N-SLi" or "Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI" mobos? Message-ID: <421462D1.3000009@wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20050216002130.GA73909@isis.wad.cz> References: <20050208193338.6ee460d9.mark@hyow.eu.org> <20050215113649.7bfcb1cd.mark@hyow.eu.org> <20050215180011.GD38158@dragon.nuxi.com> <20050216002130.GA73909@isis.wad.cz>
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Roman Neuhauser wrote: ># obrien@freebsd.org / 2005-02-15 10:00:11 -0800: > > >>Stop supporting nVidia by buying nForce-based motherboards. Or complain >>to nVidia that they (1) won't give us docs even under NDA, (2) won't >>provide a FreeBSD driver like they do for Linux. These mailing lists are >>filled with all the problems of nForce motherboards, yet FreeBSD users >>keep buying them... >> >> > > This reminds me I wanted to raise this question: What is the > recommended chipset for an athlon64 (either 754 or 939)? > > Personally, unless there are cost reasons, take the 939. It has double the memory bandwidth. It doesn't make a huge amount of difference to unix type apps. In my experience, it make a small to medium improvement for most apps, and a large improvement to some. Yes, that is over generalized. Also in general, both are excellent platforms. Both of my primary development boxes are still 754's. I haven't felt the urge to upgrade them to 939's yet. Once the Rev-E's come out, I think I'll take the plunge though. -Peter
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