From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Mar 23 9:34:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from ftp.nvg.com (ftp.nvg.com [199.179.254.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D863137B719 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 09:34:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Ed.Henderson@Certainty.net) Received: from pnt004 (vsat-148-63-55-208.c1.sb4.mcl.starband.net [148.63.55.208]) by ftp.nvg.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA13996 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:29:21 -0500 (EST) From: "Ed Henderson" To: Subject: RE: Good server motherboard? Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:29:09 -0500 Message-ID: <000d01c0b3be$c5828f80$0464a8c0@pnt004> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <20010323120241.E11151@solveinteractive.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >=20 > > 1. Does anyone have any suggestions for a good MB to use? >=20 > I like the Tyan boards for reliability. They are strong=20 > performers too, > but other boards are known to be faster. I've got several Tyan Tomcats > that have been running for close 3-4 years non-stop, without=20 > any problems. >=20 > > Or a suggestion where to look? >=20 > Tom's hardware guide is generally a good source of hardware > information. I'm sure there are many others as well. > =20 Are there specifice chipsets that work better in FreeBSD than others? I = know that most MBs are optimized for Windows and often require chipset = drivers to be loaded after installation of Windows. Would FreeBSD work = just fine with a MB like that where there was no FreeBSD drivers = available? Or am I being too paranoid? Thanks, Ed. =20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message