From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 10 5:11:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ivory.lm.com (ivory.telerama.com [205.201.1.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8F8B151CA for ; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 05:11:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from evs@telerama.com) Received: from mvehpc (d15-36.dyn.telerama.com [205.201.42.100]) by ivory.lm.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA05445; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 08:11:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <06c401beb33a$150644c0$6f27abcd@mvehpc.evs.slip.lm.com> Reply-To: "Mikhail V. Evstiounin" From: "Mikhail V. Evstiounin" To: , Subject: Re: AMD or Intel? Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 08:09:14 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To best my knowledge, AMD still beats crap out of Intel in Integer Math. Yes, it's weak in FPU. I am running one old Pentium and two AMD - I am happy. I am waiting now for AMD K-7 - It should have nice FPU - totally redesigned. It's should be at least comparable to Intel if not better, and... it should run on 200MHz bus - adopted from Alpha. From: 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message