On Monday 25 May 2009 20:34:04 Brian wrote: > Well, my box is getting pretty old, and I'd like a faster compile time of > openoffice, so I am in the process of building a new machine. > > I want to make sure my assumptions on this build are correct before I dump > money on hardware that is unlikely to be supported. > > I am planning on building either an intel xeon based machine or amd > Opteron/Phenom based machine as long as I can avoid any nvidia parts. > Since this is a workstation, I would like 3D acceleration, so I should > stick with ATI video cards, right? > > Here are some motherboards I am looking at: > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131378 > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128384 > > I am currently running an old Tyan board with a AMD64 CPU. It's worked > well, but I'm afraid if I buy the upgraded version of this board that it > will not be supported. The newer version uses Nvidia chipsets, which is > this board: > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813151062 > > Any suggestions? I don't want to build a machine that is unlikely to be > supported. > > Thanks, > > Brian
You want to look at the i386 supported hardware list, which is at http://openbsd.org/i386.html. There are several nvidia chips that are supported--its the video that you really want to stay away from. Hopefully you'll get feedback about the specifics of those two boards. --STeve Andre'
