From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 5 21:27:13 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEE1216A4CE for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 21:27:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from maltanet.net (mailer2.maltanet.net [194.158.37.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9039B43DB7 for ; Thu, 5 May 2005 21:27:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peterk@maltanet.net) Received: (qmail 18429 invoked by uid 516); 5 May 2005 21:27:16 -0000 Received: from 195.158.82.156 by mailer2.maltanet.net (envelope-from , uid 509) with qmail-scanner-1.25st (perlscan: 1.25st. Clear:RC:1(195.158.82.156):. Processed in 0.291596 secs); 05 May 2005 21:27:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO [195.158.82.156]) ([195.158.82.156]) (envelope-sender ) by 0 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 5 May 2005 21:27:16 -0000 Message-ID: <427A8FB1.40308@maltanet.net> Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 23:27:13 +0200 From: Peter Korsten User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ken Gunderson References: <9BC86C67C3AF7646B9C5382020457A9456E8CF@VIP10-WIN2K> <427A8DD0.4020200@maltanet.net> <20050505152210.582dc016.kgunders@teamcool.net> In-Reply-To: <20050505152210.582dc016.kgunders@teamcool.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hello 64 World - My proposed 3Ware system X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 May 2005 21:27:13 -0000 Ken Gunderson wrote: >>Admittedly, I tried to keep that a budget system (I kid ye not). But how >>about waiting a bit and getting a dual core AMD chip? > > Loverly, but have you priced those puppies?? I suspect we're gonna > have to wait for more than a bit for them to get down to w/in reason > for all but the high end guys... No, haven't checked them yet. This computer is still so new, it smells like it just came out of the box. My wife would kill me if I would mention upgrading. :) And it does 120 fps in Counter-Strike: Source at 1024x768 and everything maxed out... it's fast enough for now. - Peter