Hardware selection for comment.

[Micah]

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