On Thursday 02 June 2005 23:13, Jorn Argelo wrote: > dgmm wrote: > >Has anyone installed FreeBSD using this board? > > > > Gigabyte 8S648FX -RZ ATX SiS648FX P4 Motherboard. > > > >http://www.digiconcepts.com/gigabyte_motherboards_105.htm > > > >SiS 648FX chipset > >Processor: Socket 478 for Intel® Pentium® 4 processor > >Chipset: > >North-bridge: SiS648FX > >South-bridge: SiS963L MuTIOL® Media I/O > >CMedia 9761A Codec chip > >ICS1883 LAN chip > > > >Any hardware incompatibilities I should know of? Should I avoid it like > > the plague? Or is it a nice, reliable, stable board? > > > >I don't see much mention in the hardware compatibility list for SiS > > chipsets. is there somewhere else I can look to find "recommended" > > motherboards? > > > >I'm intending putting an Intel P4 3.2GHz CPU in and DDR400 ram. > > > >It'd be nice if all the onboard stuff would play nicely with FreeBSD > > > > Just standard hardware with no exotic devices. Should work out of the > box. I use a SiS chipset in my server as well. Maybe your LAN chip will > not be reconized out of hte box but I think it will. There's just one > way to find out ;)
Thanks for that confirmation. The NIC is the least of the compatibility worries. Plenty of decent spares lying around :-) > And I'm not sure what you want to do with it, but if you want to make it > a server a 3.2 Ghz is way too much processing power. I have a 2Ghz with > 400 MHz FSB and it's still "too fast". It's a workstation. General day to day use but I often transcode video from VCR and camcorder to DVD. My "server" is an AMD k6-2/350 ;-) -- Dave _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
