Re: Comments on amd64 motherboards

["STeve Andre'" <andres@msu.edu>]

On Wednesday 25 February 2004 06:47 pm, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > On Wednesday 25 February 2004 02:02 pm, STeve Andre' wrote:
> > >    My wife is getting a new computer and it makes sense to
> > > get an amd64.  My question is, what are the reasonable
> > > motherboards to look at?  Looking at Tom's hardware site,
> > > the MSI Neo K8T seems a reasonable choice.
> >
> > Intel has just announced their clone of AMD64. I don't
> > know how long it will take for Intels x86-64 systems
> > to hit the market, but you might want to investigate
> > that a little bit.
>
> Or, let us give a bit of credit to a vendor who not only operated
> fairly open regarding specifications, and who donated hardware to the
> various projects to get things happening.  Certainly, noone from Intel
> or HP has ever given us any cpu hardware for us to code against.  And
> I don't expect that to change.  So how about buying from the good guy
> this time around.

Agreed.  It is wonderful to see real viable competition here, and I
plan on buying two amd64 systems for home, and hopefully more
at work.  I'm ordering parts right now...

--STeve Andre'