Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 12:44:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Neil Bradley <neil@synthcom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CPU upgrade Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909101242270.43309-100000@beacon.synthcom.com> In-Reply-To: <19990910192754.26520.cpmta@c008.sfo.cp.net>
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> I am currently running a Dual PP200 system with 128meg memory and am > looking to upgrade the processors. What would you reccomend in the ay > of fairly inexpensive processors? I was looking at the AMD line, mabe > a k6-350, what do you think. Are these the same socket and voltage set > up? Nope. The K6/K6-2's are socket 7, the Pentium Pro is not (I even forgot the name of the socket). As long as you're not doing floating point, the K6 is quite the viable option. FP Performance on it sucks compared to the Pentium (I do a lot of 3d rendering so I have quite a bit of hardcore experience with the K6). > Also, what would I need to do after the CPU upgrade? Recompile the > kernel, or? I would think I would be able to just drop in the new > processors and boot up right? I didn't have to when I swapped motherboards and processors (from a PPro 200 to a K6-2/300). Seemed to work nicely, but your mileage may vary. -->Neil ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Neil Bradley Synthcom home : http://www.synthcom.com Synthcom Systems, Inc. Play a song wrong once and it's a mistake. Play it ICQ # 29402898 wrong twice and it's Jazz. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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