Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 17:07:51 -0400 From: "Jud" <jud@myrealbox.com> To: scott.mitchell@mail.com Cc: rodolfo@equinoxe.g-networks.net, drama@slakin.net, ukla@attbi.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OFF] Pentium vs Athlon which is better Message-ID: <1024952871.4c50fffcjud@myrealbox.com>
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-----Original Message----- From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: Rodolfo Gonzalez <rodolfo@equinoxe.g-networks.net> Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 21:18:12 +0100 Subject: Re: [OFF] Pentium vs Athlon which is better 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] >=20 > There's a small problem with AMD's, you need a very good fan or cooling= =20 > system. [snip] 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. =09Scott _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I like Crucial myself - which brings up a point re DDR RAM. DDR is less expensive than RDRAM. DDR is mainly identified with AMD chips, though there are Intel DDR motherboards available. I've owned a couple of AMD CPUs with DDR RAM motherboards and have been quite happy with them. If you want to use more than one CPU, my impression from reading (I have no experience nor expertise in this area, so take this for what little it's worth) is that AMD's support is at an earlier stage than is Intel's. It's also my impression (with the same disclaimer) that improved multi-CPU performance and stability is a goal of the FreeBSD project for the 5.x (-CURRENT) version. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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