Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 12:17:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham <lplist@closedsrc.org> To: Jim Freeze <jimfreeze@hotmail.com> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Looking for P4 Hardware Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0109151213170.10123-100000@q.closedsrc.org> In-Reply-To: <F78DzDGaIqUPlwbTBMx00010c8c@hotmail.com>
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On 2001-09-15, Jim Freeze scribbled: # I am looking at buying a P4 with an Intel 840 motherboard. # I am interested in others experiences. # Is it better to get a P3 for FBSD4.3 at this time # or should I buy the P4? The Pentium 4 processor actually requires either an Intel i845 (SDRAM) or an Intel i850 (2x RDRAM) chipset and motherboard (I know Ali and Via also have chipsets for the P4, but they aren't generally available just yet). The current problem with the Pentium 4 is that it isn't always faster than a Pentium III (mainly a Tualatin based Pentium III) or an AMD Athlon (or AthlonMP). Running a Pentium 4 with SDRAM is asking for it! The performance plainly sucks compared to it's (slightly more expensive) dual channel Rambus version and even to an Athlon system. You should be able to run FreeBSD on a Pentium 4 based machine without any problems, so long as you have compatible equipment (like a network card, modem, sound card, network card, etc.) -- Linh Pham [lplist@closedsrc.org] // 404b - Brain not found To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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