From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri May 4 18:34:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D98CE37B43C for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 18:34:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aa8vb@nc.rr.com) Received: from stealth.dummynet ([24.25.3.190]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.537.53); Fri, 4 May 2001 21:34:23 -0400 Received: (from rhh@localhost) by stealth.dummynet (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f451a7w03786; Fri, 4 May 2001 21:36:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from aa8vb@nc.rr.com) X-Authentication-Warning: stealth.dummynet: rhh set sender to aa8vb@nc.rr.com using -f Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 21:36:07 -0400 From: Randall Hopper To: multimedia@freebsd.org Cc: bruno schwander Subject: Building a killer FreeBSD box Message-ID: <20010504213607.B3227@nc.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If you were building a killer FreeBSD multimedia box, what would you buy? With PC prices coming down so fast, I'm thinking now might be a good time. I'd really like to hear from anyone that has a 1GHz+ Athelon box. What motherboards, DDR memory speed/brand, PCI soundcard, case, etc. did you get? Anything to watch out for w.r.t. FreeBSD support? I'm not opposed to buying a boxed system either, though I've bought my previous boxes in pieces. And if you've tried fxtv, I'd sure like to know that as well (Bruno's post Tuesday warned of possible problems on newer Athelon/ASUS systems; partly why I thought I'd ask). Thanks, Randall -- Randall Hopper aa8vb@nc.rr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message