From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 0:41:25 2000 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 D4AA937B84A; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 00:40:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs10.alcatel.fr (mailhub2.alcatel.fr [155.132.188.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id JAA03128; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:40:21 +0200 From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Received: from frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr (frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr [155.132.251.32]) by aifhs10.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with SMTP id JAA15357; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:37:04 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.6 (890.1 7-16-1999)) id C1256937.002A2FCC ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:40:47 +0200 X-Lotus-FromDomain: ALCATEL To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:40:42 +0200 Subject: Re: Dual-Athlon vs Dual-PIII ... opinions? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Considering the latest accomplishments of AMD and the price cuts which should happen after the week-end, AMD definitely looks like an interesting proposition. As I have not seen one AMD-compatible chipset capable of using more that one CPU, except perhaps the future "760" chipset from AMD itself (I certainly would like to get one such motherboard to replace my BP6, if the price is right) Is there also some work being done for SMP Alpha machines ? TfH PS : there was one "OpenAPIC" specification which should have made it possible to build K6-based SMP boards, but none were designed The Hermit Hacker on 10/08/2000 03:46:10 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG(bcc: Thierry HERBELOT/FR/ALCATEL) Subject: Dual-Athlon vs Dual-PIII ... opinions? 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-smp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message