From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 17 09:24:40 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 9C91516A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 09:24:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7308E43D54 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 09:24:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from fw.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51B282A8FC; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 01:24:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (dhcp53.wemm.org [10.0.0.53]) by fw.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC7C7E2B3; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 01:24:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Message-ID: <421462D1.3000009@wemm.org> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 01:24:33 -0800 From: Peter Wemm User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roman Neuhauser References: <20050208193338.6ee460d9.mark@hyow.eu.org> <20050215113649.7bfcb1cd.mark@hyow.eu.org> <20050215180011.GD38158@dragon.nuxi.com> <20050216002130.GA73909@isis.wad.cz> In-Reply-To: <20050216002130.GA73909@isis.wad.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any experience with "Asus A8N-SLi" or "Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI" mobos? 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, 17 Feb 2005 09:24:40 -0000 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