From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 4 23:52:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from bico-de-lacre.iqm.unicamp.br (bico-de-lacre.iqm.unicamp.br [143.106.51.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88B4837BE69 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 23:52:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from atabraga@bico-de-lacre.iqm.unicamp.br) Received: by bico-de-lacre.iqm.unicamp.br (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 012C119C0; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 03:52:07 -0300 (EST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <14690.56083.871132.718345@bico-de-lacre.iqm.unicamp.br> Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 03:52:03 -0300 (EST) From: Ataualpa Albert Carmo Braga To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD K6-2 / 550 X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under Emacs 20.3.1 Reply-To: atabraga@iqm.unicamp.br X-URL: http://www.iqm.unicamp.br Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Only more one information about performance. I works at Unicamp university (Brazil), with computational chemistry, and a professor make some real tests (energy and optimize calculations, for example) and got better results for a AMD 700 (Athlon) than with a Pentium 3 850. Than, I think so, the Intel's imperium maybe is close to the end. Ata. > on Wednesday, 5 Jul 2000 01:05:51, Coleman Kane wrote: > > Paul Murphy had the audacity to say: > > > 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 > > > > > > > The cpu's are a little different. The difference being that the Cyrstal > > 4324 is definately not anywhere near as good quality as a Sounblaster > > AWE32. The AMD chips, for the price are better performers than the Intel > > CPUs. You also don't want to compare speed for speed performance, try > > upgradeability and price comparisons. Maybe a K6-2 266 is almost as fast > > as a P55C-233MMZ for non-optimized FPU math, the P55C is about 2x the > > price in cost. If you buy a K6-2 400 (still cheaper than a P55C 233 and > > even a PII-300, yet kick both asses) you are getting better performance > > for a cheaper price. If you compare the PII-400 vs. the K6-2 400, of > > course the PII-400 will win, but they are about $130. The K6-2 400 is > > only $40-$50 and dropping. Just wait until you can get a nice Socket A > > board for your server with an early Duron 600 for $70 for the CPU and > > $100 for the mobo. Beat that with intel chips? I don't think so. On > > top of that, the Duron's will be SMP-able in the near future with the > > AMD770. > > > > > 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? > > > > > > [forgive me if this sounds naive but it has been a while since I have > > > bought a NEW computer] > > > -- > > > Paul Murphy > > > http://members.home.com/pnmurphy/ > > > Home Lat: 43° 33' 29" N, Lon: 79° 39' 03" W > > > Work Lat: 43° 25' 30" N, Lon: 79° 42' 34" W > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > > > > -- > > Coleman Kane > > President, > > UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message