From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 11 02:06:50 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20159106568B for ; Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:06:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from northsidesoxfan@comcast.net) Received: from QMTA09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.96]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC1318FC0C for ; Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:06:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from OMTA14.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.60]) by QMTA09.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id rDCb1c0031HzFnQ59DtaU0; Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:53:34 +0000 Received: from comcast.net ([69.139.118.74]) by OMTA14.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id rDta1c0081cPj1R3aDtald; Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:53:34 +0000 Received: by comcast.net (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 northsidesoxfan@comcast.net; Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:51:49 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:51:49 -0500 From: Bryan Cassidy To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20091011015149.GA48407@comcast.net.> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X=Operating-System: 'uname -a' Subject: ASUS M4A78T-E Motherboard X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:06:50 -0000 Hi, I am in the process of building a new PC and I am building this machine (one of three... second will be OpenBSD Firewall for FreeBSD and a third one for Windows.. you know games and all that stuff) and I am wondering if I will have any problems with this motherboard amd its chipset. North Bridge is AMD 790GX and South Bridge is AMD SB750. it comes with a VIA VT1708S onboard soundcard and the handbook states the VIA VT1708 is supported so I am hoping it is the case with this one. Second, ATI Radeon HD 3300 onboard video. I keep coming up with info that states it is suppported and last is the Atheros L1E onboard LAN card. I will give you a rundown of what I want to do and maybe I can get some advice on hardware and how I approach this. I mainly use FreeBSD for my daily machine because I just enjoy using FreeBSD and it is just what I need for a day to day use. I have a 23" LCD right now hookup via VGA on my laptop and when the machine I am building is done I would like to run a triple LCD setup. I've always wanted to run OpenBSD as a firewall and so I would like to build a basic machine with no sound, and no video to serve this purpose. I would like to also run Apache and run my own website. The third machine for Windows I might just partition one of my hard drives (I will be getting 3 Seagate Barracuda LP ST32000542AS 2TB hard drives. Total 6 TBs.) and put Windows on it and just by another video card for extreme gaming or something. I am kinda new to building my own PC so some opinions on this would be greatly appreciated. Also, as a side note, the specs above would be just to get it started and I would eventually add my own PCI NIC card, PCI sound, and PCI Video card. Any and all thoughts are welcome. Thanks for any help. hoping that everything will work out of box with FreeBSD.