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Date:      Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:28:32 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: which motherboard and which chipset?
Message-ID:  <20040222172832.GC91129@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <16434.44274.200375.8454@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
References:  <B1D77424948FD611A3B80000C0109EEF024FAD61@SYNCRO> <16434.44274.200375.8454@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 07:08:18PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> Thanks.  But are you saying the VIA K8T800 chipset is flakey too, and

I have heard of no such things.

> I should only consider AMD-8000 based boards?

For a workstation, you would probably prefer the VIA K8T800 chipset as
you'll get things such as USB 2.0, and other niceities.  The AMD 8100
chipset is server oriented and is a little more "plain".

> Just from scanning the
> last month or so of archives, it looks like the bad hardware is pretty
> evenly distributed across chipsets, but perhaps that's not enough
> perspective.  I'm new here, after all..

I would re-read the archives. :-)

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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