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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
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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
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