From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 15 16:22:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F82E37B404 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 16:22:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jud@smtp-send.myrealbox.com [209.246.211.172] by smtp-send.myrealbox.com with Novell NIMS $Revision: 2.88.1.1 $ on Novell NetWare via secured & encrypted transport (TLS); Mon, 15 Apr 2002 17:22:16 -0600 Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:21:26 -0400 From: Jud To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Fw: Re: Kt333 or nvida 415d stable ? Message-Id: <20020415192126.477dfe5c.jud@myrealbox.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Oops! forgot to copy the list. Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:18:55 -0400 From: Jud To: atk2@arctic.org Subject: Re: Kt333 or nvida 415d stable ? On 15 Apr 2002 19:01:00 -0000 atk2@arctic.org wrote: > Hello, > [snip] > I plan on upgrading in the next few weeks with the following hardware: > > Maxtor 6L040L3 hard disk $100 > Lite-on 16x dvd player $50 > Lite-on 163 cdrw $85 > AMD 1.8XP $130 > 2x256mb ddr pc2100 2x$70 > antec 840 case $110 (330w power supply) I have an XP1800+ and have absolutely no complaints. If a 350-400w power supply isn't a lot more, I'd think about it. I don't know what sort of fan setup the antec comes with, but I'd be sure to have at least one fan drawing air into the case (preferably low and in front) and one blowing out (preferably high and in back). That's besides the CPU heatsink and fan, of course. > (from old sytem 3 scsi ii drives, cheap nic card, scsi ii card and vodoo> 3/2000 (hey it has good 2d)) > > Now the question is what motherbord. I'd like to go with either the > > abit nv7-133 $124 > or > asus a7v-333 $120 > > I realize that 4.5 does not suppor the sound/nic on the nv7-133 (the raid> chip is supported but I'm not planning on using it). The sound card on the> asus a7v333 is supported (not sure about the usb 2.0). My Logitech Wingman Force 3D joystick caused some usb 1.0 problems, including an occasional kernel panic, so I commented out that part of the GENERIC kernel when building a customized version. I've seen a few posts to this list mentioning similar problems with other usb components. I don't know about usb 2.0 support, but you don't have anything to worry about if you don't plan to use usb peripherals while in FreeBSD. > Anyways I've heard that the older via chips (kt266/kt266a) are not so stable> hence this question. Well, as I've said before, I've had nothing but happiness running the A7V-266E with 4.5-RELEASE and -STABLE. Don't have any information re FBSD or XFree's behavior with the higher-speed front-side bus. >I mention the other hardware in case there are other> problems (I wouldn't mind swapping the Lite-on for pioneer/plextor for example> if they are bad drives). [snip] Don't know about Lite-on. Have a Pioneer DVD-116 that works very nicely. Hope some of this helps. You might try looking through FreeBSD and XFree web sites and doing a bit of Googling for more information. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message