AMD64 X2

[ANdrei]

I don't agree, SIL has done some nice chips... VIA isn't in my top, either, 
but SIL has made some nice chips in my opinion... and the support was ok 
last time I checked... though I used them only on Windoze (well, we have to 
do that sometimes for the sake of multimedia :)

but hey, if I'm wrong, can anyone point me to what SIL has done wrong? 
besides some issues with HDD corruption, that were solved with new BIOSes, 
afaik in one case...


ANdrei
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The problem with our world is stupidity.  I'm not saying there should
be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vulpes Velox" <v.velox at vvelox.net>
To: "Jia-Shiun Li" <jiashiun at gmail.com>
Cc: "Scott Long" <scottl at samsco.org>; <freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org>; 
<freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2005 8:49 PM
Subject: Re: AMD64 X2


> On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 19:53:48 +0800
> Jia-Shiun Li <jiashiun at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 7/2/05, Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org> wrote:
>> > The Asus A8V-E series also does not work.  Asus claims that it's a
>> > limitation of the Via K8T890 chipset, which is highly unfortunate
>> > since it's otherwise a good motherboard.  Not sure whether to be
>> > upset at Asus or Via here, but either way I guess both suck =-)
>>
>> That's part of the reason why I did not choose AMD. Although I
>> wanted to build an x86-64 capable system and I have absolutely not
>> doubt that AMD did a good job, how to choose motherboard was a big
>> question to me. Especially being experienced with KT133A and
>> VT62x2. So I decided to be chicken and choose (to me) safer Intel
>> P4 531 and P5GD1 board.
>
> Playing it safe and not buying hardware with VIA or Sil chipsets
> works nicely. :)
>
>> BTW Intel and AMD already decided to let all CPUs support
>> x86-64(mostly for marketing purposes), including P4 5x1 series,
>> Celeron D 3x1/3x6 series, and Sempron. Intel ones already arrived
>> the market. So expect more traffics discussing it. Meanwhile the
>> name AMD64 could be misleading to some people who did not really
>> understand the differences. ;)
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