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From: Linh Pham <lplist@closedsrc.org>
To: Jim Freeze <jimfreeze@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Looking for P4 Hardware
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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


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