| Hardware Requirements |
PC-BSD has moderate hardware requirements and commonly uses less resources than its commercial counterparts. Before installing PC-BSD on your computer, make sure you meet the minimum requirements.
Minimum System Requirements
At a bare minimum, you need to have the following computer hardware in order to install PC-BSD:
- Pentium II or higher
- 512 MB RAM
- 10GB of free hard drive space
- Network card
- Sound card
Recommended System requirements
The following are the minimum recommended requirements. The faster your computer hardware, the better your computing experience:
- Pentium 4 or higher
- 1024 MB of RAM
- 20GB of free hard drive space (if you will be installing KDE, GNOME, or lots of software)
- Network card
- Sound card
- NVIDIA 3D accelerated video card
You can never have too much RAM, so install as much as you can afford. To play modern video games, you should use a fast CPU. If you want to create a collection of tunes and movies on your computer, you will want a large hard disk drive which can be internal or external.
Supported Processors
PC-BSD should install on any system containing a 32-bit (also called i386) or 64-bit (also called amd64) processor. Despite the amd64 name, a 64-bit processor does not need to be manufactured by AMD in order to be supported. The FreeBSD Hardware Notes[1] list the i386 and amd64 processors known to work.
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