Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 15:41:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Bob K <melange@yip.org> To: Neil Bradley <neil@synthcom.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CPU upgrade Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909101533580.257-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909101242270.43309-100000@beacon.synthcom.com>
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On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Neil Bradley wrote: > > 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 Socket 8. You can only stick PPro's in it. > 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). The one downside is that only Intel processors support APIC (the SMP we know and love); AMD's support OpenPIC, which is not supported by any known motherboard or chipset out there. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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