From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 3 00:32:05 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1380716A418; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 00:32:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amdmi3@amdmi3.ru) Received: from cp65.agava.net (cp65.agava.net [89.108.66.215]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C151413C448; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 00:32:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amdmi3@amdmi3.ru) Received: from [213.148.20.85] (helo=nexii.panopticon) by cp65.agava.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44 (FreeBSD)) id 1Ics9i-000JeJ-Gr; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:32:02 +0400 Received: from hades.panopticon (hades.panopticon [192.168.0.2]) by nexii.panopticon (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE93A1703E; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 04:33:22 +0400 (MSD) Received: by hades.panopticon (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CF93640C7; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 04:33:29 +0400 (MSD) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 04:33:29 +0400 From: Dmitry Marakasov To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071003003329.GA78359@hades.panopticon> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <20071002164246.GA986@hades.panopticon> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071002164246.GA986@hades.panopticon> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cp65.agava.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [26 6] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - amdmi3.ru X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Cc: Subject: Re: Need motherboard for home fileserver X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:32:05 -0000 * Dmitry Marakasov (amdmi3@amdmi3.ru) wrote: Thanks for you replies so far. Now after some digging I understand a bit what I actually need. Well, I hoped to get a SocketAM2 board for AthlonX2, as it is 30-40% cheaper than Core2Duo with similar performance, but most of AM2 motherboards use nForce chipset, which is unsupported by CURRENT. The only solution I've found is M2N32-SLI (thanks Craig), but I'll need to buy video card and Intel Gbit NIC. Though Core 2 Duo CPUs are more expensive, choice of motherboards is much wider, and they are generally cheaper than M2N32-SLI, so price of AMD/Intel platforms is nearly equal. I've found some MB's with integrated video and Intel ethernet: ASUS P5B-VM DO, Intel DG33BUC, Intel DG33FBC. I think I'll buy one of those, but just to be sure, are those statements right: - Marvell/NVidia NICs suck, and I am right that I definitely need Intel. (what about RealTec, btw?) - ICH8DO should work as well as ICH8 and G33 should work as well as G965 (didn't find menton of ICH8DO in src/sys/dev/ata/ata-chipset.c) - ADI*/Realtec(ALC*)/Sigmatel(STAC*) HDA CODECs provide more or less equal sound quality. And it can be considered `good' to non-audiophiles. -- Best regards, Dmitry Marakasov mailto:amdmi3@amdmi3.ru