Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 16:17:58 -0500 (EST) From: "Neil T. Mathison" <mathison@sara.cpb.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Configuration review Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960201161531.29686A-100000@sara.cpb.org>
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Greetings,
I am attempting to put together a system to function as a workstation,
primarily for application development running FreeBSD. What follows is
a list of components and their prices obtained from various sources.
The monitor, keyboard, etc, I will lift from my old system for
the time being. I need to keep the cost around 2000 dollars.
Based on info from previous discussions here, and comparing prices from
various sources, I think the system will be problem free and a fairly
good price to performance ratio. If I am wrong about this; if anything
is obviously amiss (or even not so obvious) with the selections below
(e.g. won't work with FreeBSD, cost out of line, product x would work
more reliably than your selection for about the same cost, etc.) I
would appreciate a shout.
Regards,
Neil Mathison -- mathison@sara.cpb.org
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Basic System
ASUS PCI/I-P55TP4XE MB (Intel Triton chipset)
4 32-bit PCI and 3 16-bit ISA slots
72-pin SIMM sockets
SMC Super I/O Controller (2-floppies, 2 16650 UARTS, 1 PP)
1.44 MB floppy Drive
Desktop case + 230W PS
P130 $749
Memory
4x32 72 pin 60ns (16 Mb) $439
SCSI Controller
ASUS SC200 SCSI-II controller $ 76
CD ROM
Panasonic 4x SCSI-II $179
Hard Drive
1.08 GIG Conner SCSI-II (CFP1080S) $329
Video Card
#9 FX Motion 771 (S3 Vision 868) 2Mb $309
OS
FreeBSD 2.1 $ 40
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