Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 20:22:40 -0700 (PDT) From: drama <drama@slakin.net> To: Jim Arnold <jarnold@knightridder.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD761 or KT266A advice Message-ID: <20020520202008.U11585-100000@seven.slakin.net> In-Reply-To: <a05111722b90dd483ecda@[192.168.0.4]>
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or if you wanna go a little cheap you can get this deal http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?sku=MBM-TK7-700 It is a shuttle AI61 motherboard with the AMD 751 chipset. I picked one up and it has been running 4.5-STABLE for a month now with not a single problem. * * * * * * * * Matt (@) drama@slakin.net (w) http://slakin.net. On Sun, 19 May 2002, Jim Arnold wrote: > After spending a lot of time researching various overclocking > websites for motherboard reviews I'm not much better off > than I was when I started. > > Most of these sites are geared towards Windows users who > like to squeeze everything they can out of their systems to > play games. > > I don't play computer games nor do I run windows (obviously). > I Googled of these chipsets and freebsd didn't > turn up much either. > > My current system runs on an Epox motherboard with > a K6-3 400 and has been as stable as anyone could want. > > I'm curious to know if anyone is running either of these chipsets > and would like to share their experience and which board > they run. After my research I came down to these two boards > for each chipset: > > Epox EP-8K7A for AMD761 Chipset > Epox EP-8KHA+ for KT266A Chipset > > I'm wondering how much faster a KT266A board would be > over an AMD761 chipset board, when, for example, it came > to compiling the latest Mozilla or making my world. But my overriding > concern is stability. I would be putting an Athlon XP 1500, 1600 or 1700 > in this system. > > Thanks for any help. > > Jim > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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