From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 9 09:52:51 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFB1A16A41F for ; Sun, 9 Oct 2005 09:52:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75ADE43D45 for ; Sun, 9 Oct 2005 09:52:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z31so19131nzd for ; Sun, 09 Oct 2005 02:52:50 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=AQfmgAv3NWjw4lzi2yWSj4PE+SO9FnGSQJ5HUtNjo4LzF1oxzEip49jMSIHfteAAzhU83Gsi2nfTkW7mjUr9h8Kj9wvkeEvKx2HNj79/1ePMNTlY+z3/TRZx/LwazdGtJZKThdzOnt2wYjePaFCdfnjoHwF7WMPx3nwhakO2eko= Received: by 10.36.61.5 with SMTP id j5mr2451620nza; Sun, 09 Oct 2005 02:52:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.37.20.34 with HTTP; Sun, 9 Oct 2005 02:52:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 13:52:50 +0400 From: "Andrew P." To: Live-Wire In-Reply-To: <4348E078.8050602@echotrace.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <4348E078.8050602@echotrace.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cheap Hardware for Home Network X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 09:52:52 -0000 On 10/9/05, Live-Wire wrote: > I'm building a new box specifically do take care of a lot of things on > my home network; dns, qmail, > apache, sftp, printer server, a fileserver, etc. Some of the services, > like apache, will also be exposed to > the internet, but only for the use of friends and family. And most > important, I'm doing this all on the cheap - > for less than$600 (and the less, the better). I was wondering what sort > of hardware setups people could > recommend? Priceis the #1 consideration, followed by reliability, then > speed. But that doesn't mean > I want to neglect the latter two- what sort of specs should I be > shooting for? What is necessary for the kind > of activities I want to do. > > I'm hellbent on AMD, and the Sempron 3100+ (754) is looking pretty > sharp. I have a GeForce4 Ti 4600 lying > around that I can stick in, but because I want to use 2 SATA 150 > hardrives in RAID 1, finding an AGP 4X > mobo with 754 and SATA w/ RAID 1 is neigh impossible. So it looks like > my best bet is to find > a mobo with onboard gigabit ethernet, video, and sound (only the first > of which is important), but that still > limits me apropos the 754 cpu and the SATA. > > So again, this is a nice opportunity to buy hardware specifically > tailored for what I am using it for - I have zero > concern for expandability. What is the best fit? > > Thanks - > JNK > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > I have Gigabyte K8VT800 Pro motherboard (http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Products/Products_GA-K8VT800%20Pro.ht= m) and Sempron 2500+ (256Kb cache, 64-bit, SSE3) on my file-server. For me - it's a wonderful combination. With an updated BIOS firmware it supports up to 10 disk devices (8 IDE + 2 SATA), Gigabit network and is rock-solid. I run FreeBSD/i386 on it, but I tried amd64 before - and it works great. It's quite cheap ($60 for the board, $60 for the box version of the CPU), and it certainly rocks, believe me. BTW, it should support your Ti 4600! Cheerz, Andrew P.