Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:42:59 +1000 From: "Murray Taylor" <MTaylor@bytecraft.com.au> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Hardware selection for comment. Message-ID: <04E232FDCD9FBE43857F7066CAD3C0F1053CB1@svmailmel.bytecraft.internal>
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Comments requested from people who may have used / broken the following components. I'm looking for items like unwanted interactions, driver probs, etc. >From looking at the 5.4 hardware page http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-i386.html the general selection seems to be supported, but I have mental question marks against the graphics card and the response time of the monitor (I intend to use KDE and Xorg, am not interested in flashy games / video, but do want sharp, full colour resolution) There seem to be grumbles from some linux forums re the 6600 locking up occasionally...? Case CoolerMaster Centurion ATX Tower Black/Silver 380Watt TruPower CPU Intel Pentium 4 640 3.2Ghz 2MB 775 M/B Asus P5WD2 - Premium M/B http://au.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=493&l1=3&l2=11&l3=18 4 Ram 2.048GB (2x-1.024GB) CL3.0 DDR2 533 HDD Seagate 300GB 7200RPM 8MB Optical Drive Pioneer 110-D 16 x DVD/RW Black w/NERO FDD 1.44MB Floppy Drive Black Graphics NVidia Sparkle GF 6600GT 128MB PCIE Tape Certance DDS5 Tape Drive SCSI Card Adaptec 19160 SCSI Card SCSI Cable LVD SCSI Cable K/B, Mouse Microsoft Multimedia Desktop K/B & Optical Mouse Black Monitor SONY 17" SDMX75KB DVI-D 12MS Black LCD thanks all mjt --------------------------------------------------------------- The information transmitted in this e-mail is for the exclusive use of the intended addressee and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of it, or the taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons and/or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender and/or addressee immediately and delete the material. E-mails may not be secure, may contain computer viruses and may be corrupted in transmission. Please carefully check this e-mail (and any attachment) accordingly. No warranties are given and no liability is accepted for any loss or damage caused by such matters. --------------------------------------------------------------- ***This Email has been scanned for Viruses by MailMarshal.***help
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