From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Dec 1 8:19:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.bsdhome.com (rdu25-2-113.nc.rr.com [24.25.2.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2E5737B419 for ; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 08:19:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from neutrino.bsdhome.com (jupiter [192.168.220.13]) by smtp.bsdhome.com (8.11.3nb1/8.11.4) with ESMTP id fB1GJi715827; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 11:19:44 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bsd@localhost) by neutrino.bsdhome.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fB1GJd122455; Sat, 1 Dec 2001 11:19:39 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bsd) Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 11:19:39 -0500 From: Brian Dean To: Warner Losh Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Comments on four mobos Message-ID: <20011201111939.B9285@neutrino.bsdhome.com> References: <200111290115.fAT1FbM29302@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200111290115.fAT1FbM29302@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 06:15:37PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 06:15:37PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > > I'm looking at four new motherboards. What do people think of them: > > FIC AZ11EA > FIC AD11 > ASUS A7A266 > > with one of the faster, newer chips in them (1GHz more or less). Does > anybody have any bad/good experiences with these? While not on your list, I bought an ASUS A7M266 mid-summer and haven't had any trouble. I'm not sure about the differences between the ATA266 which is on your list - but hey, it's only off by one letter :). The only thing I wish I could change would be to increase the number of DIMM sockets. It only has two, so to go higher than 512M, you need to use the more expensive 512M or 1G memory modules. I've currently got 512 Meg in it, but this is too constraining for some of the things I am doing and I end up swapping a lot. I'm using a 1.33 GHz Athlon + SCSI with it and am very happy with performance. My typical buildworld + buildkernel is about 35 minutes. -Brian -- Brian Dean bsd@FreeBSD.org bsd@bsdhome.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message