From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 9 18:58:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A995137BFBD for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 18:58:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA13248; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 11:28:02 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 11:28:02 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: The Hermit Hacker Subject: RE: Dual-Athlon vs Dual-PIII ... opinions? Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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