Re: [Fwd: Looking to upgrade my hardware and run 6.2-RELEASE]

2007-01-29 Thread Glenn Sieb
Roland Smith wrote: [Much Good Info snipped..] 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

Re: [Fwd: Looking to upgrade my hardware and run 6.2-RELEASE]

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Smith
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

[Fwd: Looking to upgrade my hardware and run 6.2-RELEASE]

2007-01-28 Thread Glenn Sieb
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 > 6x SATA 3gb/s ports with R