From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 23 01:11:20 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 CB86816A401 for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:11:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dking@ketralnis.com) Received: from ketralnis.com (melchoir.ketralnis.com [68.183.67.83]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9403C13C46B for ; Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:11:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dking@ketralnis.com) Received: from [192.168.1.87] ([69.4.176.194]) (authenticated bits=0) by ketralnis.com (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l1N0YMAH002557 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:34:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dking@ketralnis.com) In-Reply-To: <199196.43726.qm@web62007.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <199196.43726.qm@web62007.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <524CD02D-28EB-4838-BABD-73182BD9E512@ketralnis.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: David King Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:34:13 -0800 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) Cc: Weaned BSD Subject: Re: 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: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 01:11:20 -0000 > I'm looking to buy or build a small form factor system with a microATX > motherboard. I have a VIA EPIA VT-310DP (dual 1.0 GHz) (I have dmesg and whatnot posted at ) in a Morex Venus 668B case (mini-ATX, but this board should do micro-ATX too if I'm not mistaken). I got both for pretty inexpensive from http://www.logicsupply.com, they have a lot in the way of small systems and they were pretty good to me. They'll probably boot one of their boards up and email you a dmesg if you can tell them how, they're pretty responsive. > 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.