Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 18:07:08 -0700 From: Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com> To: "Michael W. Akers" <mwakers@home.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Computer Selection Rules ( was RE: What motherboard and CPU shall i choose) Message-ID: <37DAFCBC.AE339197@bigfoot.com> References: <01BEFB90.D10C01C0@c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com>
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Well, not everyone has the same experiences as you. I particularly disagreed with some of your hard drive choices (but not a big enough deal to point out specifically). I do hope that the order in which you listed the manufacturers didn't represent how you thought they compared to one another. "Michael W. Akers" wrote: > Even with these motherboards it is a good idea to stay away from the ones that have the following built-in: > (unless you know exactly what you are doing) > * Sound > * Networking Most integrated network cards are either Intel or 3com, both of which work quite well. > * SCSI > * Video > > The Video Card: > * ATI Tech. (best balance between video and graphics performance, also highest reliability) > * Diamond * Matrox Of course, getting the bleeding edge card is asking for XFree86 to not have a server for you to use. > The Sound Card: > * SoundBlaster (all) > * ESS Except ESS PCI soundcards don't work. And I haven't been able to get my genuine SB AWE64 to work again (for lack of trying harder, but it was working and I didn't make any changes to the hardware). > The Microprocessor: > * Intel (all) > * Cyrix (except MediaGX) (no SMP support yet) I wouldn't recommend Cyrix at all. But I do have a small Oasys MediaGX box doing DNS. It runs just fine, except for a "calcru: negative time" message every once in a while. > (AMD is too flaky for use in multi boot applications, although it will work with some OS's fine it may exhibit strange behavior, AMD was designed for the Win95/98 multimedia market) I must disagree with the AMD statement. You just have to get a quality motherboard. I've got an old K6/200 on an ASUS TX97-E that's been running FreeBSD just fine for a few months, 24/7. My K6-2/380, ASUS P5A desktop machine runs FreeBSD nice and stable as well. --Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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