From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 30 02:44:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA03210 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 02:44:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from abc.xyz.net (froggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net [208.151.119.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA03181 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 02:44:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) From: groggy@iname.com Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abc.xyz.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA04119; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 03:08:43 -0800 (AKDT) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 03:08:43 -0800 (AKDT) X-Sender: abc@abc.xyz.net To: jm7996@devrycols.edu cc: William Woods , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: This a decent system for FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Mid-tower case, 7 bay > > Dual socket 8 motherboard, Ultra-wide onboard SCSI, onboard 10/100 > > NIC > > 2 Pentium Pro 150 cpu's > > 32 meg RAM > > Fujitsu 1 Gig Fast WIDE scsi HD > > keyboard, floppy, video > > NT 4.0 server > > > > They want $495.00, sound like a decent deal? > > > That's a _steal_, in my mind it is anyhow. > Take it! i'd say it's BS, save your money !!! i wouldn't trust all that "on-board" junk. you don't know what it is, or if it will work (esp w/FBSD). and if it doesn't, the whole setup is worthless ... additionally, if an "on-board" thingie screws up, you'll most likely have to trash everything. you don't even say if it's a standard AT or ATX case ... $300 for a case and motherboard? the rest is only $200 worth ... the NT server isn't worth anything. (yeah, so it has 2 150 mhz cpu's) (the price is like 300 mhz cpu's) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message