Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 11:28:02 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Dual-Athlon vs Dual-PIII ... opinions? Message-ID: <XFMail.000810112802.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008092239250.54797-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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On 10-Aug-00 The Hermit Hacker wrote: > AMD is cheaper but I've been 'Intel' since I started with computers > ... any drawbacks as far as SMP under FreeBSD? benefits? You can not use AMD chips in an SMP machine (ie no SMP chipset exists). If you want a dual processor system you need Intel.. Also remember that if you overclock your Celeron to 100mhz FSB the only difference between in and a PII is cache size (64kb vs 512kb). > 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"? Well, for a UP machine a K7 beats an Intel at the same speed grade in all operations (FPU and integer)... Disclaimer: I only have a crappy PII-350 but I lust after K7-700's ;) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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