Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 17:36:36 -0000 From: "Lawrence Farr" <freebsd-hw@epcdirect.co.uk> To: "'Brian Dean'" <bsd@bsdhome.com>, "'Warner Losh'" <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: <hardware@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Comments on four mobos Message-ID: <003401c17c21$0fe1b620$c80aa8c0@lfarr> In-Reply-To: <20011201111939.B9285@neutrino.bsdhome.com>
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A7M266 here, with an AthlonXP1800+ and a single IDE disk. Does a buildworld in 21 minutes, but wont extract audio with dagrab. Apart from that, faultless! Lawrence Farr EPC Direct Limited > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Brian Dean > Sent: 01 December 2001 16:20 > To: Warner Losh > Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Comments on four mobos > > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 06:15:37PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > > > > I'm looking at four new motherboards. What do people think of them: > > > > FIC AZ11EA > > FIC AD11 > > ASUS A7A266 > > > > with one of the faster, newer chips in them (1GHz more or > less). Does > > anybody have any bad/good experiences with these? > > While not on your list, I bought an ASUS A7M266 mid-summer and haven't > had any trouble. I'm not sure about the differences between > the ATA266 > which is on your list - but hey, it's only off by one letter :). > > The only thing I wish I could change would be to increase the number > of DIMM sockets. It only has two, so to go higher than 512M, you need > to use the more expensive 512M or 1G memory modules. I've currently > got 512 Meg in it, but this is too constraining for some of the things > I am doing and I end up swapping a lot. I'm using a 1.33 GHz Athlon + > SCSI with it and am very happy with performance. My typical > buildworld + buildkernel is about 35 minutes. > > -Brian > -- > Brian Dean > bsd@FreeBSD.org > bsd@bsdhome.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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