FreeBSD compatible mini-itx board

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Thu May 19 18:59:21 UTC 2011


On May 19, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Erik Nørgaard wrote:
>> It indicates that they put faster RAM into the box, but ran it at a speed of 533MHz, which is slower than the memory is capable of running.  In some cases, doing this lets you run the RAM at lower voltage or with tighter timing settings of CL/tRCD/tTP/etc.
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> Thanks, currently I have, well ancient RAM on an old VIA board and it's not really any reliable. That with the flacky disk controller on the VIA board is my reason to go Intel.

Yeah, I have one of the VIA EPIA M6000 boards, and the IDE controller gets flaky under load if there is more than one device attached.  Disabling the secondary channel on IRQ 15 helped some....

Regards,
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-Chuck



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