Wouter Schoot wrote:

> Dave Schanen wrote:
>
>> I jumped on the amd64 bandwagon spring of last year, with an athlon64
>> 3000 on a k8t800 mobo from giga-byte.  Before this I had a sun ultra 5
>> 360 I used as my primary machine, and it actually worked pretty well
>> for me despite its reputation.  Anyway, when I bought my system none of
>> the 64 bit OS's were quite there (Linux was having MCE's every 5
>> minutes, the Windows XP beta didn't boot after the 2nd release), and
>> since I bought my system specifically because I wanted to play with 64
>> bit assembly on an x86, that was a little upsetting.  Of course, now
>> things are working a lot better (at least on NetBSD).  I would
>> recommend, A) avoiding the 754 socket type I have, since its more or
>> less EOL and the 939 models are cheaper every day and B) getting an
>> nvidia card, since they're been fairly good about delivering 64 bit
>> beta drivers.
>
>
> Nvidia.. for grahics or pci set?
>
> How's about the k8t800 which is on the asus a8v?
>
>> Anyway, I wouldn't want to give the impression that I think people
>> should not buy an opteron or athlon64 at this point, even if things are
>> n't quite there on all OS's.  I've been running in 32 bit mode for most
>> of the time I've owned mine, and for the $50 or so more that I paid
>> over the standard athlon's which were out at the time it isn't a big
>> deal.  Unless the amount you plan to spend on your system is really
>> really tight, I'd skip Sempron.  Also, I'd skip my mobo manufacturer,
>> they've been really slow releases BIOS upgrades, even when they're
>> really important fixes.
>
>
> I was actually planning to buy an asus a8v, which Stephen just 
> reported as successfull, along with a 3000+ chip. This mobo 
> (http://www.asus.com/products/mb/socket939/a8v-d/overview.htm) also 
> comes with WLAN, most of the resellers sell 'em without the option, 
> some of 'em do sell the wifi units. Anyone had success using this wifi 
> nic ?
>
> And the onboard audio ?
>
> ps, thanks for the many responds sofar!
>
> mvg,
>
> Wouter
>
Onboard audio is the cheesy (but ever popular) ac97 stuff, and is 
supported (auvia driver).  I don't know anything about the wifi but the 
onboard gige is working (in -current).

skd