From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 21 01:56:22 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1D0916A40F for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:56:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from weaned_on_bsd@yahoo.com) Received: from web62007.mail.re1.yahoo.com (web62007.mail.re1.yahoo.com [69.147.74.230]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 867D213C461 for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:56:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from weaned_on_bsd@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 46971 invoked by uid 60001); 21 Feb 2007 01:29:42 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=zdl13zsWw8OOhrgOLnzrR4Y5Ya8X8B91VwGuKMidx6K2vpWZjpsORIm6aVarGJLT/8X6Bf5ftChHL9O6xwWj1OB16H0CGU0goRFTdCk7SY+cqxlMuitGw00gdgQX2YiK3/4lgRLtEYoQCJAEgMCDWBjjZbPYppViIx0mVzlTWj4=; X-YMail-OSG: YS.gwf4VM1kain5cEvTEy04RluWo2lwM8OZclKSl609af3fW9uig1QQE5QsXG3RCDr994U546P6ZPKVzYkH5IEW_jvmBZF6ZQEFg9aY4ItfSlICfeeDs8A-- Received: from [71.68.227.1] by web62007.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:29:42 PST Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:29:42 -0800 (PST) From: Weaned BSD To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <199196.43726.qm@web62007.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Recommendendations for a small form factor system X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:56:22 -0000 Hi, I'm looking to buy or build a small form factor system with a microATX motherboard. I develop software for a living and mostly write LAMP or perl code around mysql databases. I need something I can lug around that has good speed. I've many EIDE disk drives that have customer projects on so I need SATA and EIDE support. This box has to run FreeBSD, occasionally Red Hat and also windows. My budget is $500-$750. I'd like a gig of ram expandable to at least 2 gig, a separate graphics card (I'll rarely run X but occasionlly need to boot windows). As much cpu as I can afford. I'd thought only AMD was in reach but see now that some of the Intel core 2 duos are under $200 (intels DG965OT mobo with a E6400 chip looks sweet). I need 100baseT NIC, onboard WiFi, a DVD drive and a couple of USB ports. Sound is not important. A PCI slot would be nice too. If possible not anything that will overheat when I really crank through a large database. I write GIS code and often have databases with millions of points. I've looked at a lot of boards but thought the members of this list would be better and telling me what is fast and works out of the box with a current FreeBSD release. Thanks for any advice. --------------------------------- Never Miss an Email Stay connected with Yahoo! Mail on your mobile. Get started!