Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 12:04:28 -0600 From: "Aaron D. Gifford" <agifford@infowest.com> To: questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: What think ye of this? Message-ID: <2.2.32.19960515180428.009e7378@infowest.com>
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Hola,
Any of you FreeBSD-ers care to tell me where I might find some good prices
on a system like I describe below? Any of you have any comments,
suggestions, bewares, avoids, or recommends? My only real requirements are
that the system be FAST and RELIABLE, and its hardware has got to be
supported in FreeBSD-Stable.
CPU: Pentium 166 OR PentiumPro 200
(Are any of the "fixed" PPro200 motherboards on the
market yet? I'd REALLY like to go PPro200 if possible)
Memory: 128MB RAM (What options are there here?
What gives the best performance? EDO?
What size cache? 512K, 256K, 1MB?
Sync. Pipeline Burst?)
Motherboard: As many PCI slots as possible, good, fast, reliable
chipsets, good PCI bus throughput, needs to support
LOTS o' RAM and have free slots so I can bump up to
at LEAST 256MB.
Case/Power: I want a spacious tower with FANS, FANS, FANS to keep down
the heat. A reliable power supply with plenty 'o extra
capacity will do.
I/O: Two decent high-speed (115200) serial ports will do me fine.
SCSI Controller: One Adaptec 2940UW (PCI) (Should I go Ultra, or just Wide?)
Hard Drives: Two 4-Gig 7200 RPM high-performance SCSI Fast&Wide/Ultra
HD's should get me by to start with (What's fast and
RELIABLE? Quantum? Seagate Barracuda?)
CD-ROM: Almost any good 6x SCSI CD-ROM that'll talk to me SCSI
controller
Video: I really don't care so long as it doesn't break anything,
since I'll likely never use anything but text mode.
Mouse: Not required
Keyboard: Almost anything that isn't going to break and that has
a decent feel
Network: One PCI 100Mb/10Mb ethernet controller (Opinions on the
3Com, SMC, and other choices would be helpful!)
Again, thanks for ANY and ALL comments!
Sincerely,
Aaron Gifford
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