From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 10 1:25:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C56EE15260 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 01:24:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id JAA17000; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:20:58 +0200 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id KAA27922; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:18:36 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA29565; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:11:48 +0200 (MEST) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr by telss1 (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id KAA11532; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:16:20 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <375F75A7.7A8C2082@telspace.alcatel.fr> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:21:59 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot Reply-To: thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr Organization: Alcatel CIT Nanterre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mholloway@flashmail.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD or Intel? References: <375f4aae.17f.0@flashmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, you may just wait a little and get an "official" SMP board with two celerons-400 for the same price as your P-II 400 (check Abit and QDI for info and look at Tom's Hardware) This seems the best combination with a decent OS (it should still work with Wincrap98) TfH "Mark L. Holloway" wrote: > > I'm looking do get another PC for my FreeBSD dektop workstation (ie not serving). > > For $189 I can get an AMD K2-450 and Motherboard. > For $379 I can get an Intel 400 and Motherboard. > > I've heard the AMD has a weak FPU but as soon as you hit PIII the price jumps > way too high (since I won't use the PIII extensions). Any advice? Is the AMD > still a good cpu? > > Regards, > Mark > ______________________________________________________ > Get Your FREE FlashMail Address now at http://www.flashmail.com > It's Free, Easy, & Fun !!! > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Thierry Herbelot Phone : (+33) 1 46 52 47 23 Home Page : http://perso.cybercable.fr/herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message