From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 19 10:40:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mmu.edu.my (ext-dns.mmu.edu.my [203.106.62.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 847E737B418 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:40:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from venus.cyber.mmu.edu.my (venus.cyber.mmu.edu.my [203.106.62.12]) by mmu.edu.my (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA28776; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 01:36:18 +0800 (MYT) Received: from there (hb2c-20.cyber.mmu.edu.my [10.100.99.40]) by venus.cyber.mmu.edu.my (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA05753; Sat, 20 Oct 2001 01:36:12 +0800 (SGT) Message-Id: <200110191736.BAA05753@venus.cyber.mmu.edu.my> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: nuzrin yaapar Reply-To: nuzrin@yahoo.com Organization: multimedia university To: what ever , Subject: Re: pentium-4 v. pentium-3 Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 01:51:12 +0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Friday 19 October 2001 11:12 pm, what ever wrote: > Hi, > > So, it's time to upgrade to a new machine (I'm still using an old P2-266), > and I'm trying to decide between a Pentium-3 & a Pentium-4. This machine > will run FreeBSD only, and will serve as a workstation/router/low-traffic > webserver/samba fileserver. I don't need a 2gig processor or > anything...(my p2-266 is idle most of the time anyway). > > I'm just wondering if the Pentium 4 would be a good choice or should I buy > a Pentium3? > Apart from the risk of *frying* your CPU and motherboard if the heat sink dislocate and drop , AMD CPU is really a top performer. I use AMD Athlon 1.4GHz and able to 'make world' in 28 minute. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message