Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:20:05 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@fer.hr> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best possible Hardware Message-ID: <emav86$j3j$1@sea.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <AE28BCCB1A9AB64482D2D675A5356BB7085A24@ednex511.dsto.defence.gov.au> References: <AE28BCCB1A9AB64482D2D675A5356BB7085A24@ednex511.dsto.defence.gov.au>
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Maginnity, Simon (Contractor) wrote: >> What I want to hear is what new hardware other people are running that >> does not require too much work in getting setup, i.e. plug n play == >> good... I like brand name stuff, cause mostly it breaks down less and >> is easier to get some help for and usually someone else has worked out >> the drivers etc for it. Obviously you won't get much answers for such a broad question because people have different problems even with slight variations of hardware (e.g. hardware that appears to have a minor revision number different might behave totally different in practice). Here are some broad pointers (might work for you, might not): - Stay away from motherboards/chipsets that are less than a year to 6 months old. In particular, stay away from nVidia motherboards because nVidia doesn't give out specs needed to make drivers and drivers are reverse engineered, with varying quality. - But, nVidia has reasonably good closed source binary drivers for their graphics cards available for FreeBSD (only for i386 architecture) - Any RAM and CPU will work - Stay away from "high definition audio" sound cards (including those embedded on motherboards) unless you want to run -CURRENT - don't know much about the quality of wireless cards; Intel Centrino chipsets seem to be ok.
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