From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Dec 3 9:36:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (mta02-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AF6237B417 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 09:36:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc1-stme2-0-cust102.cdf.cable.ntl.com ([62.252.56.102]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.23 201-229-121-123-20010418) with ESMTP id <20011203173629.XFGN2135.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@pc1-stme2-0-cust102.cdf.cable.ntl.com>; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 17:36:29 +0000 Received: from lfarr (snorlax.bka.epcdirect.co.uk [192.168.10.200]) by pc1-stme2-0-cust102.cdf.cable.ntl.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fB3HaR025222; Mon, 3 Dec 2001 17:36:28 GMT (envelope-from freebsd-hw@epcdirect.co.uk) From: "Lawrence Farr" To: "'Brian Dean'" , "'Warner Losh'" Cc: Subject: RE: Comments on four mobos Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 17:36:36 -0000 Message-ID: <003401c17c21$0fe1b620$c80aa8c0@lfarr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3311 In-Reply-To: <20011201111939.B9285@neutrino.bsdhome.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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