Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 08:42:22 -0400 From: "Joseph Gleason" <clash@tasam.com> To: "Randall Hopper" <aa8vb@nc.rr.com>, <multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "bruno schwander" <bschwand@dvart.com> Subject: Re: Building a killer FreeBSD box Message-ID: <002201c0d62a$01d0b740$dc02010a@battleship> References: <20010504213607.B3227@nc.rr.com>
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If you are going with a 1GHz+ Athelon, make sure you get a very good heatsink and fan. I have been using my new box (1.33GHz Athelon) as a foot rest for the last two weeks because the heat sink I purchased with it wasn't up to the task. The much better heatsink that I wanted was on back order for a while. Basically using the new Athelons puts one in the realm of using cooling hardware that was previously only for overclockers (in the x86 PC arena anyways). Also, the Athelon has an exposed "core" (I use quotes because I don't know what it really is) on the top of the chip which is apparently very sensitive, so be very careful when installing it and the heatsink that goes on it. Since my new system is entirely unstable till I get my new heatsink, I have no input on compatability issues with FreeBSD. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Randall Hopper" <aa8vb@nc.rr.com> To: <multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "bruno schwander" <bschwand@dvart.com> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 21:36 Subject: Building a killer FreeBSD box > If you were building a killer FreeBSD multimedia box, what would you buy? > > With PC prices coming down so fast, I'm thinking now might be a good time. > I'd really like to hear from anyone that has a 1GHz+ Athelon box. What > motherboards, DDR memory speed/brand, PCI soundcard, case, etc. did you > get? Anything to watch out for w.r.t. FreeBSD support? > > I'm not opposed to buying a boxed system either, though I've bought my > previous boxes in pieces. > > And if you've tried fxtv, I'd sure like to know that as well (Bruno's post > Tuesday warned of possible problems on newer Athelon/ASUS systems; partly > why I thought I'd ask). > > Thanks, > > Randall > > -- > Randall Hopper > aa8vb@nc.rr.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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