Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 10:17:49 +1000 From: "Murray Taylor" <MTaylor@bytecraft.com.au> To: "Micah" <micahjon@ywave.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Hardware selection for comment. Message-ID: <04E232FDCD9FBE43857F7066CAD3C0F1053D7C@svmailmel.bytecraft.internal>
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----=89838e0b-9b3a-486b-b2f8-e7eb2fd3df8f Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------------------------------------------------------- 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.*** ----=89838e0b-9b3a-486b-b2f8-e7eb2fd3df8f Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable -----Original Message----- From: Micah [mailto:micahjon@ywave.com]=20 Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 10:09 AM To: Murray Taylor Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware selection for comment. Murray Taylor wrote: > =20 > Thanks to those who commented.... > - the PSU is uprated to 600 W now > =20 > and I have one (hopefully last) question re the video card >=20 > The supplier has suggested the X800 GT graphics card (a ATI Radeon based > card) > instead of the nVidia card mentioned below. >=20 > Comments welcome >=20 > cheers > mjt >=20 >=20 >=20 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Murray Taylor > Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 10:43 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Hardware selection for comment. >=20 > Comments requested from people who may have used / broken the=20 > following components. > I'm looking for items like unwanted interactions, driver probs, etc. >=20 >>From looking at the 5.4 hardware page=20 > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-i386.html=20 > 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=20 > occasionally...? >=20 >=20 > Case CoolerMaster Centurion ATX Tower Black/Silver > 380Watt TruPower >=20 > CPU Intel Pentium 4 640 3.2Ghz 2MB 775 > M/B Asus P5WD2 - Premium M/B > =09 > http://au.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=3D2&model=3D493&l1=3D3&l2=3D1= 1&l3=3D18 > 4 >=20 > Ram 2.048GB (2x-1.024GB) CL3.0 DDR2 533 >=20 > HDD Seagate 300GB 7200RPM 8MB > Optical Drive Pioneer 110-D 16 x DVD/RW Black w/NERO > FDD 1.44MB Floppy Drive Black >=20 > Graphics NVidia Sparkle GF 6600GT 128MB PCIE >=20 > Tape Certance DDS5 Tape Drive > SCSI Card Adaptec 19160 SCSI Card > SCSI Cable LVD SCSI Cable >=20 > K/B, Mouse Microsoft Multimedia Desktop K/B=20 > & Optical Mouse Black=20 >=20 > Monitor SONY 17" SDMX75KB DVI-D 12MS Black LCD > =20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > thanks all > mjt I'd stay away from ATI unless you are sure FreeBSD/Xorg/DRI supports it. I have a cheap ATI based card and the performance on this machine,=20 even 2D stuff, sucks because the card is only barely supported. HTH, Micah Thanks Micah, Gawd...=20 Instead of saying what the supplier is suggesting, maybe I should=20 turn it about and ask for suggestions re graphics cards that people are using that have proven support and capabilities under my proposed=20 os/hardware platform choice ..... So ---=20 What are you using ?? mjt --=20 A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems P: +61 3 8710 2555 F: +61 3 8710 2599 D: +61 3 9238 4275 E: mtaylor@bytecraft.com.au ----=89838e0b-9b3a-486b-b2f8-e7eb2fd3df8f--
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