Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 10:49:26 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Brian Myers <tarkawebfoot@charter.net> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New board for a newbie Message-ID: <20041228184926.GA69940@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <5B1511FA-5540-11D9-AF1F-000A95B96642@charter.net> References: <5B1511FA-5540-11D9-AF1F-000A95B96642@charter.net>
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On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 04:11:27PM -0800, Brian Myers wrote: > 2) I've seen much conversation on which boards, memory, and SATA > controllers were supported by FreeBSD. So much so that I have no idea > what the current state of things is. So, if you were building a new > dual Opteron from scratch, what would you get? For cost reasons, I'm > going with 1.8 ghz processors and probably only 2GB of ram. I'll have > two RAID 1 SATA hard drives, but should I use an onboard controller, or > purchase a separate controller? Note that I may at some point upgrade > to 4 RAID 0+1 disks. What about video cards? I don't need much so, are > the onboard ones useable or not? Also, I, of course, would like the > onboard LAN controller to be supported. You really don't mention the use of the machine -- server or workstation (or mix)? Do you need an AGP slot for high-end graphics, or is low-end on-board VGA just fine? How many 64-bit PCI-X slots do you need? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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