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

[Shawn Wallbridge]

I run OpenBSD on a bunch of nForce boards and they work fine.

shawn


On 4-Jan-05, at 12:28 AM, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> 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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