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On Saturday, 16 August 2003 at 15:33:27 -0700, Soren Jacobsen wrote:
> On 08/16 20:01, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> My main machine has just fried a southbridge, and I'm looking for a
>> replacement.  From what I can see, in the AMD range, the current best
>> performer is the nVIDIA nForece2.  In the FreeBSD project, Bill Paul
>> has described problems with the onboard NIC, and if I buy one of these
>> boards, I'll certainly swell his mailbox of disgruntled nVIDIA
>> customers.  But at a more pragmatic level, a 100 Mb/s NIC costs
>> nothing, and I have a few spares floating around, so it's not that big
>> a deal.
>>
>> Looking at what our local suppliers have to offer, the MSI K7N2 Delta
>> boards
>> (http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_detail.php?UID=436)
>> look reasonable, both in terms of performance and price.  Does anybody
>> have any experience with them?  Are there any other problems with the
>> chip set?  I've heard that it has an IOAPIC on it, even for single
>> processors.  Is this an issue?  Any other comments?  Based on what
>> I've read, I'd probably be putting a Barton 2600XP+ and 0.5 to 1 GB of
>> DDR memory into it.
>
> http://blef.org/dmesg.LOTHAR
>
> I don't know anything about the MSI K7N2, but my ASUS A7N8X works
> perfectly, aside from the well-known NIC issues.

It also costs more than twice as much as the MSI board.  Admittedly,
it's the deluxe version, but I don't need the additional features.
Still, it's the same chip set, so I don't see too much of a problem.

Greg
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