From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 16 23:35:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from saturn.cs.uml.edu (saturn.cs.uml.edu [129.63.8.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B07A337B405 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 23:35:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from acahalan@saturn.cs.uml.edu) Received: (from acahalan@localhost) by saturn.cs.uml.edu (8.11.0/8.11.2) id f6H6ZWN390560; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 02:35:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 02:35:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200107170635.f6H6ZWN390560@saturn.cs.uml.edu> From: "Albert D. Cahalan" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Cc: Kramer-James@MSHA.gov Subject: Re: Please Help - Advise on New system 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 Kramer James M. writes: > I need to purchase a new computer to run FreeBSD. I was going to > buy a bare bones with an ASUS A7A-266 with 256Mb DDR and an AMD Make sure you get the AMD chipset, especially the north bridge chip. VIA chips corrupt your data when pushed too hard. This problem is seen in any app or OS with heavy Athlon optimization. FreeBSD might not do that today, but all it takes is one commit of an optimized bzero() and you start crashing. (current victims: Windows Photoshop and Linux w/ K7 optimizations) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message