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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!not-for-mail From: bouyer@antifer.ibp.fr (Manuel BOUYER) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Hardware advice for (high end) Home-system needed Date: 28 Nov 1996 14:34:08 GMT Organization: Universites Paris VI/Paris VII - France Lines: 24 Message-ID: <57k7t0$grt@vishnu.jussieu.fr> References: <87ybfnz3lg.fsf@beowulf.gamp.hacom.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: antifer.ibp.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Newsview 0.39 (last pre-beta) G. Albert Mietus (albert@gamp.hacom.nl) wrote: > > Some concrete questions: > > - I have heard to NCR based SCSI controllers are fast and cheap. TRUE? > - Which cards (brandnames) do have them? > - Are they all alike? Or are some good and some bad. [Note that I run NetBSD, not FreeBSD, but this should'nt have much importance] I always been happy with NCR 53c810 based scsi controlers (much better than with buslogic, for example). They have good performances and work reliably for me. I have different models of these, but I don't remember the name. > > - I never play games, so I don't need high-end videocards. TRUE? > - Is the S3 Trio 64 video card good? Go for an S3 Trio 64. They are verry well supported by XFree and quite fast (especially the Trio64v+). -- Manuel Bouyer, MASI, Universite Paris VI. email: bouyer@masi.ibp.fr --