motherboard has died, any recommend? nForce2? or else?

[mezz7 at cox.net]

In case if anyone want to know what I have ordered the hardwares yesterday.

- AthlonXP Barton +3200/400
- K7N2 Delta2 Platinum (MS-6570E-010)
- 2x256mb (512mb total) DDR400 PC3200 RAM
- Seagate 120gb 7200rpm (8mb cache) ATA
- Lite-On 52x32x52x16 Combo CD-RW/DVD-ROM
- Adaptec 39160 PCI SCSI Controller Card*

I hope, FreeBSD will working on this hardwares very well.

* It's more like I only will use it once to transfer my old SCSI HD to new ATA HD. I might donate to someone (don't email me for this, pls).

Cheers,
Mezz

> From: <mezz7 at cox.net>
> Date: 2004/08/25 Wed PM 06:54:07 EDT
> To: <hardware at FreeBSD.org>
> CC: gnome at FreeBSD.org
> Subject: motherboard has died, any recommend? nForce2? or
> else?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Current I am stuck in the webmail and family computer for
> now. Anyway, my motherboard just died last night so it
> looks like I will have to shopping for some new hardwares.
> It is a desktop and I reinstall GNOME stuff for test
> pretty often. I am pretty happy with the AthlonXP 2000
> speed, so I don't really need any power or expensive
> hardwares.
> 
> I am wondering if anyone can recommend me what chipest
> (include motherboard) should I buy? nForce2? VIA? or
> whatever? I personal like AMD, btw. :-) The nForce2
> chipest is one thing that I am not sure how it plays nice
> with FreeBSD. I think, I might pick AthlonXP Barton 2800
> to 3200 as my choice of CPU. No Athlon64 or newest CPU,
> all I need is stable that will work very well with
> FreeBSD.
>
> All I need is chipest or motherboard recommend then I will
> pick CPU, HD, RAM and etc by myself because I know what to
> get. Thanks!
> 
> Cheers,
> Mezz