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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newsroom.utas.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!newshub.nosc.mil!pegasus!richard From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Subject: Re: Hacker's Choice for Hardware Organization: Pegasus Information Systems Message-ID: <DDyAun.D5H@pegasus.com> References: <41anih$4m5@news1.best.com> <41bcfa$pau@reason.cdrom.com> <41e858$166@overload.lbl.gov> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 03:54:23 GMT Lines: 19 >>Here's my current list of "faves" where hardware for FreeBSD systems >>is concerned: >> >>1. ASUS P54TP4 PCI/ISA motherboard with 64MB memory (128MB in the case of >> ftp.cdrom.com). You really don't want to swap if you can possibly >> avoid it and 64MB is the bare minimum for good performance (heck, I >> have that much in my desktop box - memory isn't expensive enough to >> make it worth skimping on). > >Load ww-itg.lbl.gov/ISS/performance.ps directly and look at page 6-7. >It sould give the overall impression on motherboard, PCI controller, and >SCSI controller. Intel triton PCI controller and bridge is the best one I had. > How about recommendations for motherboards that support parity memory? -- Richard Foulk richard@pegasus.com