Re: Intel CPU question

[Francois Tigeot <ftigeot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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@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.

-- 
Francois Tigeot