Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 14:46:49 +0000 From: simond@irrelevant.org To: "Newton, Harry" <NewtonHa@logica.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Christmas present OR hardware recommendations Message-ID: <20001130144649.F53408@irrelevant.org> In-Reply-To: <D19BCFEB340CD211801300A0C9CFB945B7EAA1@kilburn.logica.co.uk>; from NewtonHa@logica.com on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 02:29:58PM -0000 References: <D19BCFEB340CD211801300A0C9CFB945B7EAA1@kilburn.logica.co.uk>
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On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 02:29:58PM -0000, Newton, Harry wrote: > I'm going to buy myself a new machine for Christmas to replace an elderly > and skip-rescued Pentium 133. > > I was looking at a Thunderbird/Athlon 950 together with either a Asus AV7 or > Abit KT7 motherboard. These boards use the VIA KT133 (Via 686A) chipsets. > The Abit board uses a HTP 370 ide controller, whilst the Asus board uses a > Promise ATA100 ide controller. Having looked at the archives I think there > are a few potential pitfalls, and I was wondering what their current status > is: > > + bug in timer code, means can't use APM APM works fine on my A7V > + DMA access with VIA chipsets: some HD & MB combinations won't work Working fine here with an IBM 20gb drive > + ATA-100 modes: will they work ? Working fine with an IBM 46.1gb drive :) > + memory: some memory won't work well with Athlons. As far as I know any PC100 or PC133 RAM will work on the A7V > Or should I stay with Intel ? Related advice is gratefully received. Personally I'm really happy with my A7V :) -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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