From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 1 13:18:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA00610 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 13:18:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from sara.cpb.org (sara.cpb.org [198.187.60.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA00605 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 13:18:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by sara.cpb.org; (5.65/1.1.8.2/04May95-0341PM) id AA29617; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 16:18:00 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 16:17:58 -0500 (EST) From: "Neil T. Mathison" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Configuration review Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Greetings, I am attempting to put together a system to function as a workstation, primarily for application development running FreeBSD. What follows is a list of components and their prices obtained from various sources. The monitor, keyboard, etc, I will lift from my old system for the time being. I need to keep the cost around 2000 dollars. Based on info from previous discussions here, and comparing prices from various sources, I think the system will be problem free and a fairly good price to performance ratio. If I am wrong about this; if anything is obviously amiss (or even not so obvious) with the selections below (e.g. won't work with FreeBSD, cost out of line, product x would work more reliably than your selection for about the same cost, etc.) I would appreciate a shout. Regards, Neil Mathison -- mathison@sara.cpb.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Basic System ASUS PCI/I-P55TP4XE MB (Intel Triton chipset) 4 32-bit PCI and 3 16-bit ISA slots 72-pin SIMM sockets SMC Super I/O Controller (2-floppies, 2 16650 UARTS, 1 PP) 1.44 MB floppy Drive Desktop case + 230W PS P130 $749 Memory 4x32 72 pin 60ns (16 Mb) $439 SCSI Controller ASUS SC200 SCSI-II controller $ 76 CD ROM Panasonic 4x SCSI-II $179 Hard Drive 1.08 GIG Conner SCSI-II (CFP1080S) $329 Video Card #9 FX Motion 771 (S3 Vision 868) 2Mb $309 OS FreeBSD 2.1 $ 40