Murray Taylor wrote:
Thanks to those who commented....
- the PSU is uprated to 600 W now
and I have one (hopefully last) question re the video card
The supplier has suggested the X800 GT graphics card (a ATI Radeon based
card)
instead of the nVidia card mentioned below.
Comments welcome
cheers
mjt
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Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 10:43 PM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Hardware selection for comment.
Comments requested from people who may have used / broken the
following components.
I'm looking for items like unwanted interactions, driver probs, etc.
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...?
Case CoolerMaster Centurion ATX Tower Black/Silver
380Watt TruPower
CPU Intel Pentium 4 640 3.2Ghz 2MB 775
M/B Asus P5WD2 - Premium M/B
http://au.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=493&l1=3&l2=11&l3=18
4
Ram 2.048GB (2x-1.024GB) CL3.0 DDR2 533
HDD Seagate 300GB 7200RPM 8MB
Optical Drive Pioneer 110-D 16 x DVD/RW Black w/NERO
FDD 1.44MB Floppy Drive Black
Graphics NVidia Sparkle GF 6600GT 128MB PCIE
Tape Certance DDS5 Tape Drive
SCSI Card Adaptec 19160 SCSI Card
SCSI Cable LVD SCSI Cable
K/B, Mouse Microsoft Multimedia Desktop K/B
& Optical Mouse Black
Monitor SONY 17" SDMX75KB DVI-D 12MS Black LCD
thanks all
mjt
I'd stay away from ATI unless you are sure FreeBSD/Xorg/DRI supports it.
I have a cheap ATI based card and the performance on this machine,
even 2D stuff, sucks because the card is only barely supported.
HTH,
Micah
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