[geeks] Good low-end AMD 64bit system?

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Mon, 27 Dec 2004 @ 23:31 -0500, Dan Sikorski said:

> Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
> >I'm going to possibly build a low-end 64-bit AMD system in the next
> >couple of weeks.  The only real experience I've had with building 
> >'semi-recent'
> >x86 hardware in the past 2-3 years is my VIA EPIA C3-based mini-ITX stuff;
> >I've not touched any of the AMD offerings since the Athlon Thunderbird.
> >
> >Suggestions on chips, motherboards, etc?  I'll go with a GeForce FX 5x00
> >series AGP video card... 
> > 
> >
> If i were you, i would not consider getting anything other than a nvidia 
> NForce4 chipset, which will mean that you'll need a pci express video 
> card, not agp.  Josh Snyder (who is on the rescue list, but not geeks 
> and is cc'ed on this message) could tell you all the details about what 
> boards to get.

Hmmm... my worry with the nforce boards is that you only get binary
drivers and the don't provide documentation for their chipsets.

A lot of people not running Windows have trouble with them.

nVidia is supporting Linux for now, but if they ever end-of-life your
motherboard, it likely won't work with future OS releases.

I don't believe they support *BSD systems at all, though I'd love to be
wrong about that.

I just worried about it enough that I avoided all things nforce.  I run
FreeBSD and NetBSD, so I don't want a board that isn't fully supported.

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