Dave Schanen wrote:
I jumped on the amd64 bandwagon spring of last year, with an athlon64
3000 on a k8t800 mobo from giga-byte. Before this I had a sun ultra 5
360 I used as my primary machine, and it actually worked pretty well
for me despite its reputation. Anyway, when I bought my system none of
the 64 bit OS's were quite there (Linux was having MCE's every 5
minutes, the Windows XP beta didn't boot after the 2nd release), and
since I bought my system specifically because I wanted to play with 64
bit assembly on an x86, that was a little upsetting. Of course, now
things are working a lot better (at least on NetBSD). I would
recommend, A) avoiding the 754 socket type I have, since its more or
less EOL and the 939 models are cheaper every day and B) getting an
nvidia card, since they're been fairly good about delivering 64 bit
beta drivers.
Nvidia.. for grahics or pci set?
How's about the k8t800 which is on the asus a8v?
Anyway, I wouldn't want to give the impression that I think people
should not buy an opteron or athlon64 at this point, even if things are
n't quite there on all OS's. I've been running in 32 bit mode for most
of the time I've owned mine, and for the $50 or so more that I paid
over the standard athlon's which were out at the time it isn't a big
deal. Unless the amount you plan to spend on your system is really
really tight, I'd skip Sempron. Also, I'd skip my mobo manufacturer,
they've been really slow releases BIOS upgrades, even when they're
really important fixes.
I was actually planning to buy an asus a8v, which Stephen just reported
as successfull, along with a 3000+ chip. This mobo
(http://www.asus.com/products/mb/socket939/a8v-d/overview.htm) also
comes with WLAN, most of the resellers sell 'em without the option, some
of 'em do sell the wifi units. Anyone had success using this wifi nic ?
And the onboard audio ?
ps, thanks for the many responds sofar!
mvg,
Wouter
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Er was eens een boer. Hij had 3 koeien, 2 witte en 1 witte.
Maar dat gaf niet, want de koe gaf ook niet. De boer vond een
horloge, de koe vond van niet. Ra-ra kameel politiepet.
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