From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 18 05:43:49 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA26827 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 05:43:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA26822 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 1995 05:43:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id AAA07359; Tue, 19 Dec 1995 00:14:52 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199512181344.AAA07359@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Upgrade - CPU, clock? To: d_burr@ix.netcom.com (Donald Burr) Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1995 00:14:51 +1030 (CST) Cc: alan@trickler.uu.silcom.com, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Donald Burr" at Dec 18, 95 04:29:14 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Donald Burr stands accused of saying: > > Much thanks to everyone that offered help with this. The consensus > > seems to be that a processor upgrade to an Intel 486DX4/100 is the > > best that I can do with this motherboard. I have just one more > > question: What do people think about the Pentium 83MHz processor? > > This seems to run about $100 more than the DX4; is it worth it? > > (FYI: I am concerned mostly with FP performance; my IO/VM system > > is plenty fast for my purposes.) > > Forget Intel; get the AMD DX4/100. It's just as good as the Intel, but > significantly cheaper. I run FreeBSD and Win95 on AMD DX4/100 systems, > and this chip performs like a champ! You are out of context, unless AMD have upgraded their range recently; we're talking about a 5V only motherboard here; all of the AMD DX4's I have met are 3V parts. I suspect the same of the P5 mentioned above, but I can't say for sure. > Donald Burr [d_burr@ix.netcom.com], PO Box 91212, Santa Barbara CA 93190-1212 -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[