From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 10:13:21 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A12D16A40F for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:13:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-chat@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C801143CA2 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:13:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-chat@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GwxcU-00044C-1E for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:20:14 +0100 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:20:14 +0100 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:20:14 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:20:05 +0100 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060625) In-Reply-To: Sender: news Subject: Re: Best possible Hardware X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:13:21 -0000 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.