On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 09:56:22PM -0500, Glenn Sieb wrote: > I said... > > Since I tend to build my own boxes, I'd like to make sure my choice of > > CPU/MB is good fro FBSD before I buy :-) > > > > I'm looking at an AMD X2 64 5400 and an Abit AN9 32X. > > > > The AN9 has: > > > > NVIDIA nForce SPP 190/nForce 590 SLI MCP > > Dual NV Gigabit LAN
The nve(4) driver supports the following chipsets: o nForce o nForce2 o nForce3 o nForce4 It doesn't look like nForce5 is supported yet. > > 6x SATA 3gb/s ports with RAID 0/1/0+1/5 JBOD support > > (plus 2x SATA ports non-RAID) The ata(4) driver supports the following chipsets: nVidia: nForce, nForce2, nForce2 MCP, nForce3, nForce3 MCP, nForce3 Pro, nForce4. No nForce5 here either. > > I know that NVIDIA chipsets (at least used to) require separate > > downloads of the chipset drivers. Is this still the case? According to nve(4): This driver is a reimplementation of the NVIDIA supported Linux nvnet driver and uses the same closed source API library to access the underly- ing hardware. There is currently no programming documentation available for this device, and therefore little is known about the internal archi- tecture of the MAC engine itself. > > I've been using Abit MBs for years now, but I'm not necessarily tied to > > them, if there are better suggestions from the list. Looks like you'd better stick with a KN9 (nForce4) for now. Asus has the M2V-MX with VIA chipset that looks OK. Not sure about the Realtek RTL8100C ethernet chip though. Same goes for the MSI K9VGM-V. It has a RTL8201 ethernet chip. I've never had trouble with MSI mobos with VIA chipsets. They might not be the fastest, but generally everything works. AMD chipsets are fine as well. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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