From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 21 22:26:17 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5528C16A507 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:26:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ges+lists@wingfoot.org) Received: from wingfoot.org (caduceus.wingfoot.org [64.32.179.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB43B13C44B for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:26:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ges+lists@wingfoot.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wingfoot.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26FDC1F4422 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:57:33 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at wingfoot.org Received: from wingfoot.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (wingfoot.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10042) with ESMTP id QFVx75SlsMlV for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:57:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.101] (ool-4353640b.dyn.optonline.net [67.83.100.11]) by wingfoot.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA5041F4420 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:57:04 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <45B3E1B2.9070008@wingfoot.org> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 16:57:06 -0500 From: Glenn Sieb User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061207 Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Looking to upgrade my hardware and run 6.2-RELEASE 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, 21 Jan 2007 22:26:17 -0000 Since I tend to build my own boxes, I'd like to make sure my choice of CPU/MB is good fro FBSD before I buy :-) I'm looking at an AMD X2 64 5400 and an Abit AN9 32X. The AN9 has: NVIDIA nForce SPP 190/nForce 590 SLI MCP Dual NV Gigabit LAN 6x SATA 3gb/s ports with RAID 0/1/0+1/5 JBOD support (plus 2x SATA ports non-RAID) I know that NVIDIA chipsets (at least used to) require separate downloads of the chipset drivers. Is this still the case? I've been using Abit MBs for years now, but I'm not necessarily tied to them, if there are better suggestions from the list. So anywho.. I'd appreciate any advice the list can provide. I'm a huge fan of FBSD, and have been using it consistently since 2000 now. :) Thanks in advance, everyone! Best, --Glenn