Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:10:39 +0100 From: Manar Hussain <manar@ivision.co.uk> To: "Gregory P. Smith" <greg@nas.nasa.gov> Cc: Omar Thameen <omar@clifford.inch.com>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cpu/motherboard recommendations Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980811091039.0084b5b0@stingray.ivision.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199808102341.QAA19134@ryouko.nas.nasa.gov> References: <Your message of "Mon, 10 Aug 1998 18:44:54 EDT." <19980810184454.A16048@clifford.inch.com>
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>I always recommend non-Intel (my personal bias). Tha's pretty much where we tend to sit too :) >The AMD K6-2 option will be a cheaper for the 100Mhz bus speed (the >important thing for a server; good I/O..). Keep in mind that the only >PII with 100Mhz bus speed is the expensive 400Mhz option. I'm sure If you're mainly after a 100Mhz bus with a decent CPU then the AMD will probably win as it's much cheaper than a PII solution so I'd agree there - but you don't need to get a 400Mhz PII to get a 100Mhz bus, you can get it with a 350Mhz PII. If CPU performance is very important and worth a fair premium then go for 400 Mhz PII. One of the things I like about the AMDs is that I get a wider choice of motherboards. For example - it wounds like this is the kind of machine that you plan to put a lot of RAM into - you thus need to make sure that the second level cache covers all this RAM. If I were in the US I'd be very tempted by the AMD K6-2 with the California Graphics Photon 100 HC motherboard which has a 2Mb second level cache option that will let it cache pretty much up to 1/2 Gb of RAM (see http://www.anandtech.com/reviews/motherboards/california_graphics/photon100h c-1mb-atx.html) - alas these are difficult to get in the UK at the moment :( There are AMDs with better on-chip cache options due out relatively soon. Manar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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