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Grex Hardware Item 192: 64-bits
Entered by ball on Sat Nov 11 04:30:42 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?

2 responses total.

#1 of 2 by ball on Sat Apr 2 02:54:46 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.

#2 of 2 by ball on Wed Mar 16 01:07:55 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.

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