On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Murray Taylor wrote:
Comments requested from people who may have used / broken the
following components.
I'm looking for items like unwanted interactions, driver probs, etc.
I have a very, very similar setup running 5.4 and xorg, and it's
generally been good. See comments below.
From looking at the 5.4 hardware page
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-i386.html the general
selection seems to be supported, but I have mental question marks
against the graphics card and the response time of the monitor (I
intend to use KDE and Xorg, am not interested in flashy games / video,
but do want sharp, full colour resolution) There seem to be grumbles
from some linux forums re the 6600 locking up occasionally...?
I have an NVidia 6200 PCIe, which has been fine. Just be aware that the
binary-only nvidia driver seems not to support resolutions above 1280 x
1024. Also I *think* I might be getting some ghosting on text in xterms,
but it's so slight that I'm not really positive it's there. OTOH my
monitor is 10 years old. OTOOH I saw no such effect 6 months ago running
an ATI card at 1600 x 1200. If I had to do it over, I'd get an ATI if I
could find one without a fan. (The fan failed on the ATI, which is why I
got the NVidia.)
Case CoolerMaster Centurion ATX Tower Black/Silver
380Watt TruPower
^^^^^^^
You might want a beefier power supply if there's any chance you might
add another disk, especially with that tape drive already drawing power.
It will probably be OK, but since you're building a new system anyway...
Ram 2.048GB (2x-1.024GB) CL3.0 DDR2 533
Good call. I only got two 512MB sticks when building mine, and now I
kinda wish I'd gone for the gusto.
CPU Intel Pentium 4 640 3.2Ghz 2MB 775
P4s are power hogs.
HTH...
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