From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 29 03:14:34 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D02D816A400 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:14:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ges+lists@wingfoot.org) Received: from wingfoot.org (caduceus.wingfoot.org [64.32.179.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DB6913C461 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:14:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ges+lists@wingfoot.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wingfoot.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64BD31F4406 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:56:39 -0500 (EST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at wingfoot.org Received: from wingfoot.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (wingfoot.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10042) with ESMTP id kNtp-BowMQcS for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:56:21 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.101] (ool-4353640b.dyn.optonline.net [67.83.100.11]) by wingfoot.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43F601F4411 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:56:21 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <45BD6256.7030807@wingfoot.org> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:56:22 -0500 From: Glenn Sieb User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061207 Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: [Fwd: Looking to upgrade my hardware and run 6.2-RELEASE] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:14:34 -0000 I said... > Since I tend to build my own boxes, I'd like to make sure my choice of > CPU/MB is good fro FBSD before I buy :-) > > I'm looking at an AMD X2 64 5400 and an Abit AN9 32X. > > The AN9 has: > > NVIDIA nForce SPP 190/nForce 590 SLI MCP > Dual NV Gigabit LAN > 6x SATA 3gb/s ports with RAID 0/1/0+1/5 JBOD support > (plus 2x SATA ports non-RAID) > > I know that NVIDIA chipsets (at least used to) require separate > downloads of the chipset drivers. Is this still the case? > > I've been using Abit MBs for years now, but I'm not necessarily tied to > them, if there are better suggestions from the list. > > So anywho.. I'd appreciate any advice the list can provide. I'm a huge > fan of FBSD, and have been using it consistently since 2000 now. :) > > Thanks in advance, everyone! I really would appreciate some advice, if people would be so kind. :) Will FBSD 6.2-Release work ok with this hardware? I'm not really married to any of this, so if people have better suggestions for motherboards/CPUs whatever--I'd seriously appreciate it. Backchannel is fine. :) Thanks again in advance, Best, --Glenn