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On Wednesday 07 February 2007 17:49, Scott I. Remick wrote:
> AMD socket AM2 (going to use a 65W Athlon64 X2 Windsor, as Brisbane
> doesn't seem better)
> DDR2 (800 preferred)
> integrated video not necessary (need nVidia DVI card)
> integrated sound fine if it works, even basic, but not necessary since
> cards are cheap.
> NIC needs are basic (10/100), so support of integrated NIC is nice as
> it'll save me a slot, but not critical as cards are cheap

I got a Asus M2NPV-VM, mini-ATX board, 4 DIMM slots, VGA D-SUB + DVI out 
onboard, sound HDA (needs patch from Ariff, works a treat), nve also 
supported in 6.2.

> SATA2... I'm 99% positive I'll be wanting to do some RAID, at least a
> mirroring of my system/OS drive. So it'd be REALLY nice if FreeBSD
> supported whatever on-board RAID the MB had, since this will save me
> buying a 3Ware card (which are NOT cheap)

On-board == fake RAID. Use GEOM mirror and be done with it. The nVidia media 
shield crud is recognized and supported (not "RAID 5" though).

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