| Grex > Hardware > #192: 64-bits |
| 64-bits | 
Nov 11 04:30 UTC 2006 |
I have been donated an Athlon 64 chip (Socket 939) and I am looking for a suitable mainboard. My main requirement is SATA because I plan to mirror two hard drives of 80 Gbytes or more. mATX should suffice, since I don't plan to install a lot of expansion cards and will probably use a simple mini tower case (perhaps hacked for ventilation). PCIe would be a definite plus so that I can plug in a gigabit network card. Two candidate boards that I've read a little about today are the DFI Infinity RS482 and Asus A8V-VM. Has anyone here tried these or another board that might suit?
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Apr 2 02:54 UTC 2016 |
After my 32-bit Athlon XP box failed recently, I built a "new" desktop PC around a 1.6 GHz Atom 330 mainboard that's been sitting on my shelf for a while. The Atom 330 is amd64 compatible but for some reason NetBSD/amd64 throws disk I/O errors that don't happen when I run NetBSD/i386 on the same computer. Since this board maxes out at 2 Gbytes of RAM, i386 is arguably more appropriate anyway.
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Mar 16 01:07 UTC 2022 |
It has been six years and I don't remember what the issue was but in case anyone looks at this in the future, I still have the Atom 330 board (in a more compact case) and it happily runs NetBSD/amd64 9.2.