From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 12 7:55: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dsinw.com (dsinw.com [207.149.40.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FF8914FAE for ; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 07:55:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hamellr@dsinw.com) Received: from akane (ppp98.pm3-0.pdx.dsinw.com [207.149.41.98]) by dsinw.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA02181; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 07:49:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 07:34:58 -0700 () From: Rick Hamell To: Kitt Diebold Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pentium Pro vs AMD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: hamellr@dsinw.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have two hardware options available to me to put a web server on > to, a Pentium Pro 180 w/ 256K cache, and an AMD 300. > > Assuming everything else is the same (ethernet, hard drives, memory, > etc.) which would I expect to get better performance from? Is it a > big difference? Does FreeBSD take advatage of the Pentium Pro's wider > bus? I personally would go with the AMD because the Pentium Pro series is 'dead' technology. If I needed to replace parts for whatever reason, I would be able to reasonablly do so with the AMD chip and associated hardware. Rick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message