Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 20:13:08 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: "Felix 'buebo' Kakrow" <buebo@buebo.de> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mainboard for amd64 (and some other questions) Message-ID: <20051103191308.GA14713@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <947F0ED4-0D57-4B7E-AC5D-41C3E4A664F5@buebo.de> References: <947F0ED4-0D57-4B7E-AC5D-41C3E4A664F5@buebo.de>
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--2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 06:40:05PM +0100, Felix 'buebo' Kakrow wrote: > Hi, > I'm looking for a Mainboard for an amd64 desktop machine. I know the =20 > list of supported mainboards on freebsd.org and I'f tried to find a =20 > something with google, but the combination of PCI-Express and fully =20 > (or even mostly) supported seems to be very hard to find. AFAIK, FreeBSD nor Xorg supports PCI-Express yet. > Iam looking for board with a fast chipset (something like the =20 > nForce4), SATA, gigabit ethernet and sound on-board supported in =20 > RELENG-6. Avoid nForce chipsets; they don't work well with most free OS/s. > Can anybody recommend a mainboard? Anything with a VIA K8T800 will work well. I've used an MSI NEO FSR (MS-6702) and a Asus A8V DeLuxe, and they both work. > Aside from this I hear that there's some efford to port the nvidia =20 > binary driver to amd64, so a nvidia graphics card seems to be a good =20 > choice here (game performance under windows is not totally =20 > unimportand to me ;-)). I do like the GigaByte GV-NX66128DP because =20 > it's fanless, reasonally priced and has a realistic performance, but =20 > I'm not sure about it because I have no idea if I'll ever get some 3D-=20 > Support under amd64. Probably not. For supported 3D, get a Radeon 9250. It's the latest supported by the DRI infrastructure in the kernel and Xorg. HTH, Roland --=20 R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDamFEEnfvsMMhpyURAsv5AJ4z+KZwTnvLppmJcYizfN9LO5jcnwCfYmSD fGqDX3pYfmJ2k/Gl1tkPu/s= =ZEFE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO--
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