From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 26 08:05:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FA4216A4CE for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 08:05:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from adsl-68-76-19-75.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net (adsl-68-76-19-75.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net [68.76.19.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B20443D41 for ; Wed, 26 May 2004 08:05:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luke@foolishgames.com) Received: from [192.168.2.49] (adsl-65-42-187-205.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net [65.42.187.205]) (authenticated bits=0)ESMTP id i4QF5DiN096847; Wed, 26 May 2004 11:05:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from luke@foolishgames.com) In-Reply-To: <20040525220707.GB37698@tao.thought.org> References: <20040525044508.GA13463@tao.thought.org> <20040525053009.GA89377@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040525055338.GA17244@tao.thought.org> <200405250041.47675.kstewart@owt.com> <20040525220707.GB37698@tao.thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <11FF41BD-AF26-11D8-B628-000A95EFF4CA@foolishgames.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Lucas Holt Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 11:05:05 -0400 To: Gary Kline X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.70, clamav-milter version 0.70j cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Kent Stewart cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: which kinds of AMD work withh FBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 15:05:54 -0000 > > On this server (i815), the video uses the system SDRAM and > since I'm not a gamer whatever chip-set this has is adequate. > Anyboy know what kind of on-board video comes with the > AMD mobo's? (Am I going to be pulling my hair trying to get > it working? in other words.) > > gary > > Intel chipset boards for pentiums almost always use an intel graphics chipset. On amd based boards, it varies greatly what you get. I would assume an nforce chipset with onboard would probably use a nvidia chipsest. Via and sis boards are bound to have different video chipsets. Short answer: it depends on the motherboard. I bought an asus board without onboard video for this reason and got a lowend nvidia agp card to throw in since i knew it was supported by nvidia's drivers. (nforce 2 motherboard chipset) That worked out rather nicely. One other thing to consider is online shopping. My local computer store has a barebones for $250 but i can build the same system using newegg.com for $200 with better parts. (i.e. asus board, name brand ram, etc) I saw a case on there for 25 bucks the other day. Locally the cheapest cases are 45 (both with power supply). I'm sure there are other sites too. Lucas Holt Luke@FoolishGames.com ________________________________________________________ FoolishGames.com (Jewel Fan Site) JustJournal.com (Free blogging) 'Mmm... forbidden donut' -- Homer Jay Simpson