Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 19:24:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org> To: Murray Taylor <MTaylor@bytecraft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware selection for comment. Message-ID: <20051018185356.C19639@tripel.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <04E232FDCD9FBE43857F7066CAD3C0F1053CB1@svmailmel.bytecraft.internal> References: <04E232FDCD9FBE43857F7066CAD3C0F1053CB1@svmailmel.bytecraft.internal>
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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... -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ]
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