Intel CPU question

[Matthew Dillon]

:On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:09:51AM +0200, Antonio Huete Jimenez wrote:
:> 
:> I recently bought a Phenom X6 1055T in a Gigabyte 880GA-UD3H
:> motherboard, and besides ACPI, everything I've used _seems_ to work
:> fine. I haven't done much testing yet though.
:> For example, I have NOT tested the audio card or run Xorg on it :)
:> 
:> 2010/10/11 Tim Darby <t+dfbsd at timdarby.net>:
:> > Does DragonFly support Core I7 or is AMD a safer choice?  I'm ready to build
:> > a high end multi-core box and was wondering what my options are.
:> >  Known-to-work motherboard suggestions would also be greatly appreciated.
:
:AMD is a safer bet, there's too much complexity on the Intel side nowadays.
:
:This Gigabyte board is a good choice; you should try to get an AMD880 chipset
:based board, everything just works including Xorg.
:
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:Francois Tigeot

    I'm pretty happy with the gigabyte board.  There are still some issues
    with AHCI but mostly pertaining to host-swap and external enclosures.
    All I feel are fixable even if I have to depart from the AHCI spec
    a bit as a special case.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at backplane.com>