From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Du3nt-0002zt-Vt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 07:43:14 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6H7flcB031564; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 07:41:47 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6H7cEXA028305 for ; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 07:38:15 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 17 Jul 2005 07:38:50 -0000 Received: from N564P027.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [192.168.1.20]) [62.47.14.123] by mail.gmx.net (mp028) with SMTP; 17 Jul 2005 09:38:50 +0200 X-Authenticated: #787166 Message-ID: <42DA0B0B.6090905@gmx.net> Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 09:38:51 +0200 From: Jarry User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, sk Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT?] Advice on hardware References: <342e1090507150806161c6f06@mail.gmail.com> <20050715171813.71ea65f2@chi.speakeasy.net> <342e1090507162319726110e0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <342e1090507162319726110e0@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 7b6b6926-9f42-4393-a9da-d4424589645c X-Archives-Hash: 7979c7f3f738dc22e18a7b5a849b2b6a Daniel da Veiga wrote: > Thanks, I did some research and I've decided to get a 939 with an > a64fx 3500+ in an asus a8n sli deluxe, I have 3200+ with a8n-sli deluxe, and I'm a little dissapointed with that motherboard: - terrible bios! e.g.: you set memory frequency (ddr400), then change cpu-frequency, and memory setting drops down to ddr266. It is almost impossible to fix memory settings and work with cpu-frequency settings... - layout far from being optimal if you put long graphic card into peg-16x (gf6800), you will have later problems with adding/removing memory chips. To remove/add memory, you have to take out graphic card... - 2nd lan-chip (Marwell 1Gbit) connected to pci (not pci-express) why??? it is pci-express based mobo, so why 1gbit lan on pci??? btw, 1gbit = 128MB/s (+duplex), pci = 133 MB/s (single-channel), so with 1Gbit lan pci must be pretty saturated... - 2nd raid/sata again not on faster pci-express, but on old and slow pci! Why so many components on old pci??? - active nForce4 chipset-cooler terrible loud it is some small cooler high-rpm fan without rpm-adjustment, which I had to exchange after 2 weeks for passive Zalman. Just my 2 cents. I have been using asus-products for about 7 years, but I think asus is not the hardware-producer it used to be. Asus still makes excelent mobo's for Intel, but its mobo's for AMD64 are... well, imho only "average". Nothing more, nothing less. For the same (or lower) price you could get much better product... If I would like to build a new comp today, I would probably go with EpoX, DFI, Gigabyte or MSI motherboards... Jarry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list