Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 13:55:47 -0500 (EST) From: <up@3.am> To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gigabyte Athlon motherboard Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001101352030.38204-100000@richard2.pil.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10001100747450.18042-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>
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On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Rick Hamell wrote: > > I'm considering a Gigabyte GA-71X with an AMD Athlon CPU. > > It will run *exclusively* FreeBSD, and the dealer has said me that > > they have observed stability problems with Windows. > > > > Does this CPU/motherboard work well with FreeBSD? I would > > use a 500 or 700 MHz CPU. > > I've exerienced about an 8% loss on these motherboards due to > minor power surges alone, not to mention a multitude of small problems. I > highly suggest you go with Soltek or Asus, both work great under FreeBSD > and Windows if now problems. As long as we're on the subject of motherboards for FreeBSD, I'd love some feedback on higher-end server boards with integrated SCSI and Ethernet, as well as console redirection to the serial ports. I've been using the Intel L440GX+ with pretty good results, but I was wondering what else there is, now that there are 133Mhz memory busses, etc. James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor up@3.am http://3.am ========================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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