Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:19:39 -0400 (AST) From: Michael Richards <miker@scifair.acadiau.ca> To: michael dorin <mike@chaski.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MMX whats the story Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980226131732.12274A-100000@scifair.acadiau.ca> In-Reply-To: <199802260847.IAA17351@chaski.com>
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On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, michael dorin wrote: > Its currently running a cyrix p166+ processor. No MMX. Assuming > the motherboard will support the faster clock speed, can I upgrade to > a 200Mhz something with MMX? Since you can't seem to find any non-mmx > processors out there anymore. Well, I don't know if upgrading from a 166 to a 200 is going to make any difference at all. mmx gives you some special floating point instructions and I don't think that it will make much difference. I doubt that the kernel would even use a pile of those instructions. For the cost, you should look at a more significant upgrade than that because you prolly won't see much performance change for the cost. -Mike> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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