new hardware - compatible?

Thu Jun 12 16:31:02 UTC 2008

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:35:39 -0400
Brad Mettee <bmettee at pchotshots.com> wrote:

> Intel Quad Core Extreme 3Ghz, LGA775
> Asus P5K-E Motherboard (P35 chipset, Onboard LAN)
> 4G Kingston DDR 2 RAM (PC2 6400)
> Seagate 500G, SATA 2, 7200RPM
> GeForce 7200GS 128MB 32-bit GDDR2 PCI-E x16 Video Card (basically a
> cheap vid card)
> Samsung SATA CD-ROM

One important note may be that you will probably want to use the 64-bit
version of FreeBSD (called AMD64) to use all that RAM. However, as far
as I know, the proprietary nvidia drivers will not work in 64-bit mode.
Since you don't seem to be aiming at massive graphics performance,
perhaps the open source drivers will suffice?

/ Robert