From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 15 11:06:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA10128 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 May 1996 11:06:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from InfoWest.COM (infowest.com [204.17.177.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA10105; Wed, 15 May 1996 11:05:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agifford (zaketh.uv.com [204.17.177.95]) by InfoWest.COM (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA24336; Wed, 15 May 1996 12:16:35 -0600 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19960515180428.009e7378@infowest.com> X-Sender: agifford@infowest.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 12:04:28 -0600 To: questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: "Aaron D. Gifford" Subject: What think ye of this? Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hola, Any of you FreeBSD-ers care to tell me where I might find some good prices on a system like I describe below? Any of you have any comments, suggestions, bewares, avoids, or recommends? My only real requirements are that the system be FAST and RELIABLE, and its hardware has got to be supported in FreeBSD-Stable. CPU: Pentium 166 OR PentiumPro 200 (Are any of the "fixed" PPro200 motherboards on the market yet? I'd REALLY like to go PPro200 if possible) Memory: 128MB RAM (What options are there here? What gives the best performance? EDO? What size cache? 512K, 256K, 1MB? Sync. Pipeline Burst?) Motherboard: As many PCI slots as possible, good, fast, reliable chipsets, good PCI bus throughput, needs to support LOTS o' RAM and have free slots so I can bump up to at LEAST 256MB. Case/Power: I want a spacious tower with FANS, FANS, FANS to keep down the heat. A reliable power supply with plenty 'o extra capacity will do. I/O: Two decent high-speed (115200) serial ports will do me fine. SCSI Controller: One Adaptec 2940UW (PCI) (Should I go Ultra, or just Wide?) Hard Drives: Two 4-Gig 7200 RPM high-performance SCSI Fast&Wide/Ultra HD's should get me by to start with (What's fast and RELIABLE? Quantum? Seagate Barracuda?) CD-ROM: Almost any good 6x SCSI CD-ROM that'll talk to me SCSI controller Video: I really don't care so long as it doesn't break anything, since I'll likely never use anything but text mode. Mouse: Not required Keyboard: Almost anything that isn't going to break and that has a decent feel Network: One PCI 100Mb/10Mb ethernet controller (Opinions on the 3Com, SMC, and other choices would be helpful!) Again, thanks for ANY and ALL comments! Sincerely, Aaron Gifford --=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=-- Aaron D. Gifford InfoWest, 1845 W. Sunset Blvd, St. George, UT 84770 InfoWest Networking Phone: (801) 674-0165 FAX: (801) 673-9734 Visit InfoWest at: "http://www.infowest.com/" ICBM: 37.07847 N, 113.57858 W "Southern Utah's Finest Network Connection" --=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--=+=--