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thefronny
My current trusty box, an Asus A7N8-Deluxe with an Athlon XP2600
Barton core has started locking up with various bus errors. I've
swapped out every part I can to isolate the problem and nothing is
helping, which leads me to suspect the board.
Since this combo is so old I'm at a loss for a replacement; AMD has
released a lot of stuff recently, especially sockets and I don't want
to make an expensive mistake. I'm currently running FreeBSD-7.1 and
mirrored SCSI disks and a PNY brand 6200 PCI video card. I'm not a
gamer and am not interested in high end CPUs and boards.
Can someone tell me what might be a sort of sweet spot for Opterons?
From past good experiences I'd like to stick with Asus/AMD but I'm
open to another board. Power consumtion is important to me, but not
the over-riding factor. Any ideas?
thanks,
tf
Barton core has started locking up with various bus errors. I've
swapped out every part I can to isolate the problem and nothing is
helping, which leads me to suspect the board.
Since this combo is so old I'm at a loss for a replacement; AMD has
released a lot of stuff recently, especially sockets and I don't want
to make an expensive mistake. I'm currently running FreeBSD-7.1 and
mirrored SCSI disks and a PNY brand 6200 PCI video card. I'm not a
gamer and am not interested in high end CPUs and boards.
Can someone tell me what might be a sort of sweet spot for Opterons?
From past good experiences I'd like to stick with Asus/AMD but I'm
open to another board. Power consumtion is important to me, but not
the over-riding factor. Any ideas?
thanks,
tf