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

[Doug White]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Jan Mikkelsen wrote:

> 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?

AMD-8131 is a generic HT-PCIX bridge. Its likely an 8111 chipset, which
works fine.

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