On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 05:37:01PM +0200 I heard the voice of Zoran Kolic, and lo! it spake thus: > > Hurrah! I shall get a bit cheaper version, plain m5a97 or pro.
AFAIK, the only difference between the plain M5A97 and the Evo is that the Evo has better VRM's. If you're overclocking a 125w CPU, it's definitely worth it; otherwise, probably not so much. (I'm not, but I like headroom ;) > Let me ask you further. What option you chose during install? Well, I'm running disks I was running in another system before. I installed them by having a running system on another disk, then setting them up manually from there. I'm kinda particular... > Further, what ram did you put on the board? It proved to be picky > regarding memory. I'm running a Kingston KVR1600D3E11SK4/16G set. http://www.amazon.com/Kingston-ValueRAM-1600MHz-KVR1600D3E11SK4-16G/dp/B007N9056A/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=3E7FYCA8C0KHE&coliid=I29FFUTSMXJ5YN No problems with it. But I wouldn't expect any. Kingston's always been good for me on the one side, and I really haven't seen near the problems out of the boards some people have. I suspect there's a heavy contingent of people pushing weird bleeding-edge memory speeds and failing... -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [email protected] Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
