Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:34:13 -0800 From: David King <dking@ketralnis.com> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: Weaned BSD <weaned_on_bsd@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Recommendendations for a small form factor system Message-ID: <524CD02D-28EB-4838-BABD-73182BD9E512@ketralnis.com> In-Reply-To: <199196.43726.qm@web62007.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <199196.43726.qm@web62007.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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> I'm looking to buy or build a small form factor system with a microATX > motherboard. I have a VIA EPIA VT-310DP (dual 1.0 GHz) (I have dmesg and whatnot posted at <http://www.ketralnis.com/roller/page/dking? entry=via_epia_vt_310dp>) in a Morex Venus 668B case (mini-ATX, but this board should do micro-ATX too if I'm not mistaken). I got both for pretty inexpensive from http://www.logicsupply.com, they have a lot in the way of small systems and they were pretty good to me. They'll probably boot one of their boards up and email you a dmesg if you can tell them how, they're pretty responsive. > I develop software for a living and mostly write LAMP or > perl code around mysql databases. I need something I can lug around > that has good speed. I've many EIDE disk drives that have customer > projects on so I need SATA and EIDE support. This box has to run > FreeBSD, > occasionally Red Hat and also windows. My budget is $500-$750. I'd > like a gig of ram expandable to at least 2 gig, a separate graphics > card > (I'll rarely run X but occasionlly need to boot windows). As much > cpu as I can afford. I'd thought only AMD was in reach but see now > that some of the Intel core 2 duos are under $200 (intels DG965OT mobo > with a E6400 chip looks sweet). I need 100baseT NIC, onboard WiFi, > a DVD drive and a couple of USB ports. Sound is not important. A PCI > slot would be nice too. If possible not anything that will overheat > when I really crank through a large database. I write GIS code and > often have databases with millions of points. I've looked at a lot > of boards but thought the members of this list would be better and > telling me what is fast and works out of the box with a current > FreeBSD release. > > Thanks for any advice.
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