Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:19:44 +0200 From: Christian Baer <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: recommendation(s) for new computer Message-ID: <4F917E90.9000205@uni-dortmund.de>
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Mellow greetings, y'all! :-) After several years, I think it's about time for a new computer, since my current one is slowly aging to a meltdown. Well, that and I currently have the dough for a new one. So before I spend it uselessly on women, I'll see to it that I get my new machine ASAP. ;-) Usage: I want to select the components to make them FreeBSD-friendly. Just about anything will run under Windows, so I won't make a fuss there. Windows will run on this machine (too), because from time to time I do enjoy a little gaming. I am not a hardcore-gamer though. About 80% of my time at the computer is spent "in non-gaming-mode". And I certainly will not spend extra money to play Crisis in full detail beyond 1080p. I do a lot of writing, reading, some programming, lots of photo-work and watch a movie from time to time. Nearly all of these 80% will bei done running FreeBSD (or PCBSD). Most of these components aren't all that thrilling (because they will run with just about anything), but you are welcome to comment on them if you think I could/should rethink an aspect. Remember that I live in Germany and my choice fell on things that I can easily get on the German market. I took a look at the costs and the prices that Intel wants for their CPUs and mainboards just blew my socks off! Therefore, I decided that this will be an AMD-computer (again). - Asus Sabertooth 990FX - AMD FX-8150 - Corsair Vengeance 16GB Kit [Note: This combination is known to work because a friend has exactly those components.] - Enermax Platimax 600W - LG CH10LS28 I'll leave the case and the fans out of this discussion. :-) And SSD (probably 256GB) is planned too. I just don't know which one yet. You might have noticed that there is no graphics board. That is the actually problem I am having: Should I go with AMD or nVidia? I remember a while back that I had trouble getting an AMD graphics board to work properly under X. The board was too old for the official driver from AMD and the open source driver gave me the feeling that I was back at my old 80386. I doubt that I will be doing any gaming under FreeBSD (although I once did get Warcraft 3 to run using Wine). However, I do want to be able to use 3D effects on the desktop. What I am asking basicly is, what vendor has better support? As an indication, should I buy an AMD-board, it will be something like a 7950 or 7970. Thanks for your time, thoughts and suggestions! Cheers! Chris
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