NVidia chipsets (was Re: Any experience with "Asus A8N-SLi" or"Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI" mobos?)

[Jan Mikkelsen]

David O'Brien wrote:
> Stop supporting nVidia by buying nForce-based motherboards.  Or complain
> to nVidia that they (1) won't give us docs even under NDA, (2) won't
> provide a FreeBSD driver like they do for Linux.  These mailing lists are
> filled with all the problems of nForce motherboards, yet FreeBSD users
> keep buying them...

HP have just announced the xw9300 workstation.  According to the spec 
sheet the chipset is an "NVIDIA nForce Professional with AMD-8131 
HyperTransport PCI-X tunnel".

The xw9300 looked interesting to me, but I guess the chipset is going to 
be a problem for using FreeBSD on those boxes.  Is HP a possible source 
of information on the chipset?

(Incidentally, does anyone know anything about the HP DL385, or the HP 
Opteron blades, the BL25p and BL35p?)

Regards,

Jan.