From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 10 8:51:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from energyhq.homeip.net (213-97-200-73.uc.nombres.ttd.es [213.97.200.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1229237B407 for ; Fri, 10 May 2002 08:51:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by energyhq.homeip.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0232E3FCB7; Fri, 10 May 2002 17:51:31 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 17:51:31 +0200 From: Miguel Mendez To: Josef Grosch Cc: chat@freebsd.org, questions@bafug.org Subject: Re: What hardware do you use ? Message-ID: <20020510175131.A66230@energyhq.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Josef Grosch , chat@freebsd.org, questions@bafug.org References: <20020510153118.GA23467@mooseriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020510153118.GA23467@mooseriver.com>; from jgrosch@mooseriver.com on Fri, May 10, 2002 at 08:31:18AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 08:31:18AM -0700, Josef Grosch wrote: [moved to chat@] > This question came up at last night BAFUG meeting. What hardware do people > use and/or recommend? Specifically, if you were going to build a machine, > using commonly available parts and just to run a generic kernel, what > ethernet, video, motherboards, etc, would you use and/or recommend? You haven't specified if it's for a server or desktop, but here's my 0.02Euro: - Motherboards: don't be cheap here, get some quality brand, Asus, Iwill, Supermicro, A/Bit - CPU: I'd say go AMD, their products are top notch. - NIC: 3com or Intel. Avoid Realtek like the plague. - HD: I always use SCSI, but that's me. My personal choices are Quantum (Atlas) and Seagate (Barracuda and Cheetah) - Video: For a desktop I'd get Matrox or ATI (if you need 3d). Avoid NVidia at all costs, they suck :-) - Case: If you are making a server go for rackmount, else get something with good air flow, as AMD procs get really hot. - Mouse: Something people sometimes underestimate, a good mouse is pretty important if you use your computer many hours a day, my favourite is Logitec's Pilot, no wheel or fancy crap, but a very comfortable design. =20 Cheers, --=20 Miguel Mendez - flynn@energyhq.homeip.net GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt EnergyHQ :: http://www.energyhq.tk FreeBSD - The power to serve! --HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE82+yDnLctrNyFFPERAm7XAKC1ZIeDBe6c/Qhbu932Icgb4pd7OgCgrzbw adDd0rsEB04e6BQU9dBoKBY= =35CR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HcAYCG3uE/tztfnV-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message