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Date:      Thu, 27 Dec 2001 21:04:17 -0500
From:      Jud <jud@operamail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, jacks@sage-american.com
Subject:   Re: MAGIK 1 Chipset MB
Message-ID:  <SNZWD83ZIDTRG1XOIYTVUNIWQ1UQNIC.3c2bd321@sparky>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20011227122144.01797558@mail.sage-american.com>

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12/27/2001 1:21:44 PM, jacks@sage-american.com wrote:

>First, a Happy, wealthy & most of all HEALTHY New Year to 
everyone!
>
>Second, I'm shopping for a new 1.2-1.4 GHz Motherboard and looking 
at one
>of the makes that I have liked before, however, it now uses a chipset
>"MAGiK" I'not familiar with. I'm wondering if anyone has had any 
experience
>with this one using FreeBSD? I'm using 4.4-stable with updates
>monthly...4.5 being next. Here's the chipset:
>
>"...The MAGiK 1 chipset is based on M1647 Northbridge and 
M1535D+
>Southbridge chips. These chips incorporate funky-fresh features such 
as
>support for DDR memory at PC1600 and PC2100. Throw in ATA/100 
and RAID
>support and AGP 4X and you've got a chipset that's ready to take on 
VIA's
>and Intel's best....."
>
>Any feedback appreciated!
>
>Best regards,
>Jack L. Stone,
>Server Admin

ALi MAGiK chipset performance tests I've seen (using various Windows 
benchmarks, not *nix) generally lag those of VIA and AMD.  

For a while, AMD was considered to have the best AMD-DDR chipset, 
the AMD 761, which incorporates a VIA southbridge.  I have a 
motherboard with this chipset (ASUS A7M266), and I've always been 
quite happy with it.  

VIA's chipset had problems when first introduced as the KT266, but 
reviews of the revised KT266A have been laudatory, generally finding it 
the best AMD-DDR chipset currently on the market.  See, e.g., 
http://www.anandtech.com/chipsets/showdoc.html?i=1528&p=11 .  
Again, it's performance with Windows that's being discussed.  

I haven't run into any *nix-specific performance measures of any of 
these chipsets, nor have I heard anything good or bad with regard to 
reliability.

Last thought - do you really want to buy a chipset described as having 
"funky-fresh features?"

Jud



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