From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 9 19:48:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4816637B401 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 19:48:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from util.ext.ti.com (util.ext.ti.com [192.91.75.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB7DF43EC5 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 19:48:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gauthamg123list@myrealbox.com) Received: from dlep7.itg.ti.com ([157.170.134.103]) by util.ext.ti.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBA3m3cO027568; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:48:03 -0600 (CST) Received: from dlep7.itg.ti.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dlep7.itg.ti.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA16156; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:48:03 -0600 (CST) Received: from popsvr.india.ti.com (popsvr.india.ti.com [157.87.95.215]) by dlep7.itg.ti.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA16090; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 21:48:01 -0600 (CST) Received: from gautham ([192.168.185.126]) by popsvr.india.ti.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA29228; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:17:58 +0530 (IST) Reply-To: From: "Gautham Ganapathy" To: "Cliff L. Biffle" Cc: "Questions @ FreeBSD" Subject: RE: Athlon motherboard for 5.0? Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:17:41 +0530 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <200212071330.35054.cbiffle@safety.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal 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 On Sunday, December 08, 2002 2:01 AM, Cliff L. Biffle wrote > > I'm running 5.0-DP2 on an Asus motherboard with the Apollo > KT133 chipset. The > chipset is notoriously buggy, according to the folks on > -current, and I've > been having trouble with the USB and ATA controllers -- though it's > intermittent and hard to reproduce. > > I've stumbled across a new 1.4Ghz Athlon Thunderbird chip, > which doesn't work > in my older motherboard. So, I'm in the market for a mobo. > It's for a > workstation, and integrated graphics and sound are not > desired. It'd be nice > if it took PC133 SDRAM, since I have 768MB here, but DDR is okay if > necessary. But most importantly, everything on the > motherboard needs to have > good support in 5.0. Support in 4-stable is nice, but hardly > a requirement. > If this means sticking with an older, more conservative chipset, and > sacrificing things like USB 2.0, Firewire, or fast AGP, it > doesn't bother me > at all. I'm not a gamer or a video producer; my motherboard > is used solely > to connect my CPU to RAM and cards. :-) > > Suggestions? Don't know about 5.0. I am currently running 4.7-RELEASE on an ASUS A7V333 with a 850 MHz Athlon TBird. Have had no problems so far with audio/video/LAN... There were some problems with the chipset when I was using 4.5-RELEASE, but i think they were fixed in 4.7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message