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-----Original Message----- From: Micah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 10:09 AM To: Murray Taylor Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware selection for comment. 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 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Murray Taylor > 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 Thanks Micah, Gawd... Instead of saying what the supplier is suggesting, maybe I should turn it about and ask for suggestions re graphics cards that people are using that have proven support and capabilities under my proposed os/hardware platform choice ..... So --- What are you using ?? mjt -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems P: +61 3 8710 2555 F: +61 3 8710 2599 D: +61 3 9238 4275 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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