[Ukfreebsd] Building a new FreeBSD box

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Tue Jun 7 22:26:47 BST 2011


On Sat, 4 Jun 2011 21:32:06 +0100
Dave Gallagher <david.gallagher at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> I've finally decided it's time to buld my self a new desktop box.
> 
> This is after seeing just how fast the new HP N36L server
> (See thread "zfs, raidz abd 4k "advanced format" HDDs)
> is it compiling etc compared to my old P4 3.2GHz box.
> 
> I think I've decided to go AMD instead of Intel so am looking at
> something in the order of an AMD Phenom II X6 1090T or 1100T at the
> core and want to build around that.

You might want to wait a bit for the AMD Bulldozer CPUs which are due
out around now. They need an AM3+ motherboard.


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