From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 9 10:59:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.nyct.net (bsd4.nyct.net [204.141.86.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30A3037BBC1 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 10:59:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mbac@nyct.net) Received: from bsd1.nyct.net (root@bsd1.nyct.net [204.141.86.3]) by mail.nyct.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA04041; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 13:59:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mbac@nyct.net) Received: from localhost (mbac@localhost) by bsd1.nyct.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA18696; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 13:59:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mbac@nyct.net) X-Authentication-Warning: bsd1.nyct.net: mbac owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 13:59:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Bacarella To: wc.bulte@chello.nl Cc: FreeBSD hackers list Subject: Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought.. In-Reply-To: <20000609190832.C18641@freebie.wbnet> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 08:54:28PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > I'm considering buying an Athlon based machine. Before shelling out the > > $ (well, fl ) I'd like to know what experiences have with Athlon and > > FreeBSD. And obviously which mom boards to prefer or keep away from. > > Anybody using the Abit KA7? If yes, do you like it? > > I appreciate the KA7 PCI/ISA combo slot instead of the useless AMR thingy Asys > has on their praised K7V (mind you, I like Asus as such, excellent > experiences with them over the years). Ugh. I was suprised that I couldn't find an Asus K7V without a stupid AMR slot, especially since I only heard good things about the board itself. I made an honest attempt but just ended up ordering it anyway. I've tried to figure out what that slot does but I've only come across market-speak. What does it do? Michael Bacarella New York Connect Net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message