New board for a newbie

[David O'Brien]

On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 04:11:27PM -0800, Brian Myers wrote:
> 2) I've seen much conversation on which boards, memory, and SATA 
> controllers were supported by FreeBSD. So much so that I have no idea 
> what the current state of things is. So, if you were building a new 
> dual Opteron from scratch, what would you get? For cost reasons, I'm 
> going with 1.8 ghz processors and probably only 2GB of ram. I'll have 
> two RAID 1 SATA hard drives, but should I use an onboard controller, or 
> purchase a separate controller? Note that I may at some point upgrade 
> to 4 RAID 0+1 disks. What about video cards? I don't need much so, are 
> the onboard ones useable or not? Also, I, of course, would like the 
> onboard LAN controller to be supported.

You really don't mention the use of the machine -- server or workstation
(or mix)?  Do you need an AGP slot for high-end graphics, or is low-end
on-board VGA just fine?  How many 64-bit PCI-X slots do you need?

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)