AMD FX8350 with ASUS Sabertooth 990fx R2.0 on FreeBSD?

KARNVORbeefRAGE

KARNVORbeefRAGE

This is just for confirmation, I did read on a previous thread that a member was running FreeBSD on the AMD FX8350: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=38006. (He had heat issues but it seemed to have been a program's problem.)

I am planning a build soon and I would like to know if the Sabertooth with UEFI BIOS and the FX processor are indeed officially supported on FreeBSD. I did read the hardware release notes, but I found them to be slightly dated so I just need some confirmation. Please do not hesitate on letting me know if I am being a bonehead and direct me to the proper source.

Thanks, any help will be much appreciated.
 
I have a Sabertooth Z77 with UEFI and it boots FreeBSD. You must set the board to legacy boot though. There's no UEFI bootloader for FreeBSD yet.
 
KARNVORbeefRAGE said:
Thanks, I will subscribe to that. I went on the archives but didn't find it, maybe this will help; thanks again!
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SirDice said:
I have a Sabertooth Z77 with UEFI and it boots FreeBSD. You must set the board to legacy boot though. There's no UEFI bootloader for FreeBSD yet.
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What graphics card you have?
 
I have a Visher FX-4300 but I have a HD7770 video card. The only reason I have not tried to install is because the card I have (Cape Verde) is currently not supported. But as soon as it's supported I will have FreeBSD running on my computer.
 
Thanks for all the help, I am glad you can use a legacy option to boot (I had read about that somewhere but unfortunately my old computer runs on traditional BIOS, so I could never test run anything on UEFI). I am planning on purchasing an Nvidia GTX660 or a GTX650 ti just because they run on the supported 304.x.x driver.
 
It is true AMD FX8350 is very hot as I also have one and the compile time temperature could reach 68 degrees with a water cooler installed, it is absolutely not suitable for server usage unless you have a large server chassis with a very efficient CPU cooling heat sink. But the FX 4 core series is very good at operational temperatures at about 54 degrees on a default AMD heat sink during compile.
 
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