amd64 laptop recommendations

[Rob]

Michael R. Wayne wrote:

>On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 03:02:45PM -0800, Rob wrote:
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>>Oh jeez, you guys got my mouth watering with this discussion.  I have an 
>>AMD64 + 3800 on an Abit AV8,  (socket 939)
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>I'm looking at putting a box together based on that motherboard,
>got any pointers?  I'm planning on going with the dual video cards
>(unsure which at this point) so that I can drive 4 displays at times
>as well as convert to SLI mode for one real fast display.  Am also planning on
>spending extra cash to make it quiet.
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Hi Michael,

LOL, quiet.  My box with a Coolermaster case, 460W power supply, giant 
cpu fan (Zalman), and two scsci 160 drives sounds like a jet engine 
starting up.  Unfortunately, the Abit "Guru" fan fan speed control 
doesn't work, and the Abit "PC Guru" utility will not load, I get an 
error message.  This Guru tool looks fantastic.  You can set trip points 
for cpu voltage, temps,etc, and get an audible alarm or shutdown if they 
are exceeded.  I t  was designed for the overclocker.  I know better 
than do that stuff LOL.  It will, if working, also automatically 
download bios and flash install it.  Very cool.  (if working :(   

My main problems have been with Windoze XP-64 beta.  FreeBSD just 
appears to be working, although I have to admit, I really haven't put it 
thru its paces yet.  I have one app on Windoze that I use all the time 
IVisit video chat, and I've been pulling out my hair and concentrating 
on getting that working on my laptop.  Its taking 100% of my time right 
now.   As an aside, I have no video capture drivers that will work with 
any cam for the Windoze 64 bit OS..  I guess I am too far ahead of my 
time. 

I was able to cvsup to 5.3-RELEASE on the FBSD side, and that is where I 
am currenty at.  However I get lots of bogus error messages saying that 
almost all the config params in rc.conf are misconfigured.  Yet the 
computer works fine.  This is my own fault as I merge /etc by hand and 
probably missed something.  I occasionally have tried to compile a port 
and have gotten the error message, paraphrasing, "this is a 32 bit 
application and can't be run on a 64 bit OS" or something like that.  It 
seems totally bogus.  (please no lectures about mergemaster, I know the 
drill)

Right now I am stuck on both OS's trying to install a brand new 
beautiful Plextor PX-712SA SATA DVD+/- RW drive.  It doesn't seem to be 
recognized by either FBSD or Windoze.

So that is my 64  bit story..  I hope some of the info helps.

Sincerely,  Rob.

ps.  I will copy the AMD list on this as I or they might be able to 
exchange some info or tips