From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 10 2:19:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rothko.bestweb.net (rothko.bestweb.net [209.94.100.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51DD537B607 for ; Sat, 10 Jun 2000 02:19:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kmg@bestweb.net) Received: from DarthMaul (dialin-59.poughkeepsie.bestweb.net [216.179.15.90]) by rothko.bestweb.net (8.9.1a/8.9.3) with SMTP id FAA18121; Sat, 10 Jun 2000 05:14:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Kevin M Geraci Reply-To: kmg@bestweb.net To: Doug Rabson , wc.bulte@chello.nl Subject: Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought.. Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 05:06:51 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: FreeBSD hackers list References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00061005114300.00541@DarthMaul> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The Athlon architecture is changing from slot-A to socket-A, so you might want to wait for the new chips. -Kevin On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Doug Rabson wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 09:39:53AM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote: > > > On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, 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. > > > > > > We have one at work and it works fine. We had to put some extra cooling on > > > the motherboard chipset though. > > > > What motherboard are you using? > > I'm not sure - Nick Hibma might know since its his desktop machine. I > could probably open it up and check. > > -- > Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com > Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8442 9037 > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message