From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 16 11:47:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA2F537B408 for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 11:47:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id UAA06313; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 20:55:11 +0200 Message-ID: <3B53373C.E613835B@i-clue.de> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 20:49:32 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kramer James M." Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org'" Subject: Re: Please Help - Advise on New system References: <358DD50B8076D311AB9600805FA78BF84CFDFC@PITEXCH1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > "Kramer James M." schrieb: > > I need to purchase a new computer to run FreeBSD. I was going to buy > a bare bones with an ASUS A7A-266 with 256Mb DDR and an AMD T-Bird. I > will use my old CD-ROM. Video and hard drives. Do you think that > FreeBSD will run on this system or would it be safer to use an older > system or maybe use a system based on the Intel pentium? I > appreciated any insight you might provide. AMD or Intel CPUs are compatible, they won't give you any problems. The only thing to watch out at this time is to grab a video board wich is right now supported by XFree86 4.x or 3.3.6. NVidia Geforce chips are, much to my grievance, not yet supported. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message