From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 22 09:28:36 2004 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 E4E6316A4CE for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:28:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCBB543D1F for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:28:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i1MHSXOJ091543; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:28:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i1MHSWbh091542; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:28:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:28:32 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Andrew Gallatin Message-ID: <20040222172832.GC91129@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <16434.44274.200375.8454@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16434.44274.200375.8454@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: which motherboard and which chipset? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 17:28:37 -0000 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)