From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 24 13:18:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (mta05-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCDC737B403 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:18:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lungfish.ntlworld.com ([80.4.0.215]) by mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020624201814.IARM2755.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@lungfish.ntlworld.com>; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 21:18:14 +0100 Received: from tuatara.goatsucker.org (tuatara.goatsucker.org [192.168.1.6]) by lungfish.ntlworld.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5OKIDV97348; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 21:18:13 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from scott@tuatara.goatsucker.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by tuatara.goatsucker.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5OKIC19003201; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 21:18:12 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from scott) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 21:18:12 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell To: Rodolfo Gonzalez Cc: Matt Snow , Steve Warwick , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OFF] Pentium vs Athlon which is better Message-ID: <20020624211811.A335@fishballoon.dyndns.org> References: <20020623234217.N24434-100000@seven.slakin.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from rodolfo@equinoxe.g-networks.net on Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 12:10:07PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 12:10:07PM -0400, Rodolfo Gonzalez wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Matt Snow wrote: > > > As an addendum, any opinion on components? [motherboard, ram, HD, NIC etc] > > There's a small problem with AMD's, you need a very good fan or cooling > system. Well, you need a heatsink that's approved by AMD, which is not really a problem. Hopefully your server is going to be located somewhere you don't care about the noise it makes, so you can put some nice big fans in the case and everything will be fine. A lot of recent Athlon boards properly support the chip's thermal diode, so your system will at least shut down safely if your cooling does die. That said, my Athlon XP 1800+ box runs perfectly happily and almost silently with a 'flower cooler' http://from www.quietpc.com/ and a couple of 1500RPM fans. IMHO this belief that Athlon systems always need extreme cooling is often overstated; it's probably the fault of all the overclocking nuts trying to squeeze every last MHz out of their machines... now you do need some serious cooling to pull that kind of thing off :-) Make sure your cooling and power supply are AMD approved, and use major-brand RAM -- I've personally never had any problems with Crucial/Micron RAM. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message