Hardware selection for comment.

[Murray Taylor]

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-----Original Message-----
From: Micah [mailto:micahjon at ywave.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 10:09 AM
To: Murray Taylor
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Hardware selection for comment.

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


Thanks Micah,

Gawd... 
Instead of saying what the supplier is suggesting, maybe I should 
turn it about and ask for suggestions re graphics cards that people
are using that have proven support and capabilities under my proposed 
os/hardware platform choice .....

So --- 
What are you using ??

mjt

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