From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 26 07:29:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA26054 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 07:29:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dc.seflin.org (d055633c@dc.seflin.org [199.227.192.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA26030 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 07:29:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from d055633c@dc.seflin.org) Received: (from d055633c@localhost) by dc.seflin.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA15194; Thu, 26 Mar 1998 10:29:42 -0500 Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 10:29:41 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Jackson Subject: Re: which is best To: Spitz cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It doesn't matter. As far as chip makers go no one chip is better than the other per se. Intel has the big name and is good for nothing but hype and overpriced chips. Cyrix chips run a hell of a lot faster at slower clock speeds, (i.e. a cyrix m2-mmx 200 runs at 150 Mhz and can match an Intel 233 in pure computing power) but it lacks in floating point math operations. AMD has better floating point operations than cyrix, but it doesn't match their speed. Overall for general computing I would pick Cyrix, as the price aspect ($80 for a Cyrix 200 $100 for a Cyrix 233!!!) beats the crap out of Intel, and at the same speed. Robert Jackson d055633c@dc.seflin.org On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Spitz wrote: > SHould I get a Intel or AMD to run FreeBSD? thanks > > Neil > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message