From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 26 09:20:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA18926 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 09:20:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scifair.acadiau.ca (scifair.acadiau.ca [131.162.160.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA18908 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 09:20:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from miker@scifair.acadiau.ca) Received: from localhost (miker@localhost) by scifair.acadiau.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA12277; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:19:39 -0400 (AST) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 13:19:39 -0400 (AST) From: Michael Richards To: michael dorin cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MMX whats the story In-Reply-To: <199802260847.IAA17351@chaski.com> 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 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