From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 6 14:15:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4919314F8E for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 14:15:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA34022; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 23:15:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 23:15:11 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200001062215.XAA34022@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD + Kryotech Athlon = ? X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <852elo$5sp$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > Does anyone use any AMD Athlon processors with FreeBSD. olli@dorifer:~> dmesg | egrep PU\|AMD CPU: AMD-K7(tm) Processor (500.03-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x612 Stepping = 2 Features=0x81f9ff AMD Features=0xc0400000<,,3DNow!> > If so, are they stable? Stable like a rock. > I am thinking about a Kryotech 1GHz job or a normal 750MHz for > safety purposes. Do they support SMP yet etc. etc. The Athlon itself is "SMP-ready", but there are no SMP main- boards yet. They have been announced for Q1/Q2 2000. But you probably don't need SMP anyway (and there are only very few applications that really benefit from SMP). A UP Athlon on on its own is already an exceptionally well performer, thanks to its large caches and well-designed processor architecture. I also have a dual Celeron-466 box, and I don't like it as much as the Athlon. The Celeron's small memory caches and low bus bandwidth waste a lot of the performance. It's a nice toy if you just want to play with SMP, but Celerons don't really make sense in a serious SMP environment. Just my 0.02 Euro. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message