Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 18:40:05 +0100 From: "Felix 'buebo' Kakrow" <buebo@buebo.de> To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Mainboard for amd64 (and some other questions) Message-ID: <947F0ED4-0D57-4B7E-AC5D-41C3E4A664F5@buebo.de>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --Apple-Mail-1-261066887 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Hi, I'm looking for a Mainboard for an amd64 desktop machine. I know the list of supported mainboards on freebsd.org and I'f tried to find a something with google, but the combination of PCI-Express and fully (or even mostly) supported seems to be very hard to find. Iam looking for board with a fast chipset (something like the nForce4), SATA, gigabit ethernet and sound on-board supported in RELENG-6. SATA-Raid is not need, allthough it would certanly nice to have it. I have some spare Soundcards and NICs so it would be ok Sound or Ethernet just don't work at the moment as long as there's the perspective that they will in the not to distant future and not only in current. Can anybody recommend a mainboard? I'm planning on dual booting i386 and amd64 for the time beeing and switch over fully to amd64 when everything I need is working (OO.o for example). At the moment I'm in favour of an Athlon X2, is this machine supported with both cores in i386 (with a SMP-Kernel of course)? Aside from this I hear that there's some efford to port the nvidia binary driver to amd64, so a nvidia graphics card seems to be a good choice here (game performance under windows is not totally unimportand to me ;-)). I do like the GigaByte GV-NX66128DP because it's fanless, reasonally priced and has a realistic performance, but I'm not sure about it because I have no idea if I'll ever get some 3D- Support under amd64. Since FBSD is my main system for getting stuff done (I'm also toying around with Linux from time to time) at the moment I don't want to buy unsupported hardware, but on the other hand my last mainboard died and I can't wait to long with getting something new, so there's a timefactor... Thanks in advance. Felix -- Guns don't kill people. Rappers do. --Apple-Mail-1-261066887 content-type: application/pgp-signature; x-mac-type=70674453; name=PGP.sig content-description: Signierter Teil der Nachricht content-disposition: inline; filename=PGP.sig content-transfer-encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) Comment: Encrypt Your Mail With GnuPG! iD8DBQFDakt6h3KJlP+0/PsRAksTAKDDPXUmqjxKv4ASp5/87E9UOUfXbgCg0Qut BpGmewesbOYBLebxXcHEMkk= =mN4N -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail-1-261066887--
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