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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!news.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Hardware advice for (high end) Home-system needed Date: 28 Nov 1996 23:42:17 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 61 Message-ID: <57l80p$hr0@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <87ybfnz3lg.fsf@beowulf.gamp.hacom.nl> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E G. Albert Mietus <albert@gamp.hacom.nl> wrote: > - I have heard to NCR based SCSI controllers are fast and cheap. TRUE? Yes. > - Which cards (brandnames) do have them? I know of the ASUS SC200, though there must be even cheaper ones. Somebody recently posted a list of such boards to freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org. You might be able to locate this list using the mailinglist search engine at http://www.freebsd.org. > - Are they all alike? Or are some good and some bad. The 53C810-based ones are certainly alike. There are also faster ones (``Ultra'' SCSI), but i don't think this will make sense in an environment with just one disk, and perhaps a tape and CD-ROM drive only. > - Is EDO RAM really faster then normal RAM (for FreeBSD) According to Bruce Evans' evaluation, not notably. (I think it's been less than 10 %.) > - Some PCI ethernet card don't work with FreeBSD (2.1 and later). TRUE? Some do work. :) The DEC21040-based cards are the best. > - Which (brandname) mainborad are good? ASUS > - Which are bad? ASUS P55TP4N ;-) (This one had a seriously broken IO chip on it, the UMC8669F.) > - How about the "Yellow Dragon" Whatsat? > - I never play games, so I don't need high-end videocards. TRUE? X11 benefits from a good video card, regardless of whether you're playing games, or your only `game' is the window manager. :) > - Is the S3 Trio 64 video card good? It has a good bang per buck ratio. Works fine in 8-bit (pseudo-color) mode up to 1280x1024, and 16-bit (truecolor) mode up to 1024x768, approximately. Should suffice your needs. (Truecolor doesn't imply `games', but color-expensive things like image processing, or even Netscape.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)