From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 9 18:48:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat193.159.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.193.159]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D20EC37BBBC; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 18:48:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA04791; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 22:46:10 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 22:46:10 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Dual-Athlon vs Dual-PIII ... opinions? 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 I want to upgrade my Dual-Celeron machine to a Dual-?? and haven't got a clue which way to go ... AMD vs Intel ... AMD is cheaper but I've been 'Intel' since I started with computers ... any drawbacks as far as SMP under FreeBSD? benefits? if I throw cost away, are the Intel's still the better choice for a Unix environment? I heard somehwere that AMD was great for gamers ... but what about "real work"? Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message