From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 4:49: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.bna.bellsouth.net (mail2.bna.bellsouth.net [205.152.150.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1532237BD1E for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 04:49:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lauasanf@bellsouth.net) Received: from bellsouth.net (adsl-61-188-138.bna.bellsouth.net [208.61.188.138]) by mail2.bna.bellsouth.net (3.3.5alt/0.75.2) with ESMTP id HAA19007; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 07:48:52 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <39928A3F.B30867F7@bellsouth.net> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 05:55:59 -0500 From: Drew Sanford X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: The Hermit Hacker , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual-Athlon vs Dual-PIII ... opinions? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > > You can not use AMD chips in an SMP machine (ie no SMP chipset exists). > Yet. If you can wait a few months (It'll give you time to save some cash) you should be able to pick one up. My understanding (If someone knows something different, please correct me) is that the AMD cpu's will continue to borrow from EV6 technology and the SMP will operate more like ALPHA SMP than Intel. I'm not sure if this will cause problems or not, AMD may have found a way to make it look like Intel, while keeping the EV6 performance.. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Drew Sanford Email: lauasanf@bellsouth.net ICQ: 8690555 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "My mother said to me, if you become a soldier, you'll be a general, if you become a monk, you'll end up as the pope. Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." -- Pablo Picasso To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message