Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 13:21:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Paul Murphy <pnmurphy@home.com> Cc: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com>, ler@lerctr.org, Greg@fatcanary.com.au, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD K6-2 / 550 Message-ID: <20000705132157.I97425@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3962A197.62560B50@home.com> References: <200007050229.VAA40330@aurora.sol.net> <3962A197.62560B50@home.com>
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On Tuesday, 4 July 2000 at 22:46:47 -0400, Paul Murphy wrote: > Joe Greco wrote: >> >> Ditto. I'm slowly but surely dumping all my Intel Pentium stuff, plus most >> of my 486 or older stuff :-) I've been using the ASUS P/I-P55T2P4, the >> venerable Triton II overclocker's board, which I've got a plethora of, and >> some P5A's. My baseline systems are now K6/233's, ranging up to >> K6-III-400's (which still seem to be faster than their K6-2 higher speed >> counterparts). Only using Intel for the SMP stuff now. And on my laptop > > Is there a particular reason for going with the AMD's over Intel? When > buying computers I have always stayed with the Intel CPU's because I > thought it was similar to Soundblaster vs. others: all the others say > they are "Soundblaster compatible" so why not buy the real thing? An obvious reason is the bang to buck ratio. AMD CPUs are cheaper for a given performance, often very much so. I note also an article in c't issue 13/2000, which suggests that Intel is currently in big trouble delivering high-performance processor hardware, whereas AMD seems to be doing pretty well. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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