Hardware selection for comment.
Micah
micahjon at ywave.com
Wed Oct 26 17:09:00 PDT 2005
Murray Taylor wrote:
>
> Thanks to those who commented....
> - the PSU is uprated to 600 W now
>
> and I have one (hopefully last) question re the video card
>
> The supplier has suggested the X800 GT graphics card (a ATI Radeon based
> card)
> instead of the nVidia card mentioned below.
>
> Comments welcome
>
> cheers
> mjt
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Murray Taylor
> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 10:43 PM
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Hardware selection for comment.
>
> Comments requested from people who may have used / broken the
> following components.
> I'm looking for items like unwanted interactions, driver probs, etc.
>
>>From looking at the 5.4 hardware page
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-i386.html
> 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
> occasionally...?
>
>
> Case CoolerMaster Centurion ATX Tower Black/Silver
> 380Watt TruPower
>
> CPU Intel Pentium 4 640 3.2Ghz 2MB 775
> M/B Asus P5WD2 - Premium M/B
>
> http://au.asus.com/products4.aspx?modelmenu=2&model=493&l1=3&l2=11&l3=18
> 4
>
> Ram 2.048GB (2x-1.024GB) CL3.0 DDR2 533
>
> HDD Seagate 300GB 7200RPM 8MB
> Optical Drive Pioneer 110-D 16 x DVD/RW Black w/NERO
> FDD 1.44MB Floppy Drive Black
>
> Graphics NVidia Sparkle GF 6600GT 128MB PCIE
>
> Tape Certance DDS5 Tape Drive
> SCSI Card Adaptec 19160 SCSI Card
> SCSI Cable LVD SCSI Cable
>
> K/B, Mouse Microsoft Multimedia Desktop K/B
> & Optical Mouse Black
>
> Monitor SONY 17" SDMX75KB DVI-D 12MS Black LCD
>
>
>
>
> 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,
even 2D stuff, sucks because the card is only barely supported.
HTH,
Micah
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