On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 19:53:48 +0800 Jia-Shiun Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 7/2/05, Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Asus A8V-E series also does not work. Asus claims that it's a > > limitation of the Via K8T890 chipset, which is highly unfortunate > > since it's otherwise a good motherboard. Not sure whether to be > > upset at Asus or Via here, but either way I guess both suck =-) > > That's part of the reason why I did not choose AMD. Although I > wanted to build an x86-64 capable system and I have absolutely not > doubt that AMD did a good job, how to choose motherboard was a big > question to me. Especially being experienced with KT133A and > VT62x2. So I decided to be chicken and choose (to me) safer Intel > P4 531 and P5GD1 board. Playing it safe and not buying hardware with VIA or Sil chipsets works nicely. :) > BTW Intel and AMD already decided to let all CPUs support > x86-64(mostly for marketing purposes), including P4 5x1 series, > Celeron D 3x1/3x6 series, and Sempron. Intel ones already arrived > the market. So expect more traffics discussing it. Meanwhile the > name AMD64 could be misleading to some people who did not really > understand the differences. ;) _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
