From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Aug 31 0:37:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rfnj.org (rfnj.org [216.239.237.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 800E837B407 for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 00:37:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from all@biosys.net) Received: from megalomaniac.biosys.net (megalomaniac.rfnj.org [216.239.237.200]) by rfnj.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEAB813ADD for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2001 03:12:35 +0000 (GMT) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010831024941.00c3fe18@rfnj.org> X-Sender: (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 03:12:50 -0400 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: Allen Landsidel Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors In-Reply-To: <200108310117.SAA26272@mina.soco.agilent.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 18:17 8/30/2001 -0700, Darryl Okahata wrote: > Yeah. As long as you avoid motherboards with the VIA KT133A/KT133 >chipset and the VIA 686B Southbridge, you're probably fine (not all such >motherboards supposedly have problems, but how do you tell the >difference?). For more info, check out: This is total nonsense. I have four athlons in my house. A 600MHz Slot-A (MSI-6167, AMD Irongate chipset), an 800MHz Thunderbird (Abit KT7, VIA KT133 chipset), and two 1200MHz Thunderbirds (Abit KT7 and Abit KT7-RAID, VIA KT133 chipsets). I ordered a 1000MHz Thunderbird just today (Abit KT7E, VIA KT133E chipset) to arrive tomorrow and replace the MSI based system. To date, the MSI board with the AMD chipset has been the only one to ever experience problems, and that was due entirely to crappy memory coupled with an inadequate power supply. That system is running right now wearing many hats. 1) Primary DNS server 2) Apache + PHP4 WWW server 3) FTP server 4) Samba server 5) Postfix email server 6) PostGreSQL DB server 7) Local cvsup mirror 8) ...probably other things I'm forgetting right now... It's been working flawlessly without a single crash since the day the memory and PSU were replaced, and FreeBSD was put on it. > http://www.au-ja.de/review-kt133a-1-en.html This site is one of, if not the only, site I have seen to list such a plethora of problems with the VIA chipsets for the Athlon. In fact, this kind of reminds me of that hoax about athlons of high clock speeds being unable to properly decode jpg/gif (can't remember which) images. The unofficial KT133 FAQ: http://www.icrontic.com/faq/index.php3?theme=4&level=2&document_id_select=3 Go to http://www.amdzone.com and do a search in the archives for KT133. You'll find a mess of articles, most to all praising the KT133. Some people may feel differently (As may I once the nForce is out and field tested) in the future, but for now, I wouldn't even consider any Athlon motherboard without a VIA chipset; The exception, of course, being AthlonMP boards... but you don't see me hopping on the bandwagon to buy one yet either, I'd like to have a choice between several manufacturers and even chipsets if possible. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message