Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:04:02 +0200 From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org> To: Marc W <mwlist@lanfear.com>, John Turnbull <johnrt@home.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request advice on AMD CPU / motherboard combo for FreeBSD - jrt Message-ID: <01042711040202.00623@peedub.muc.de> In-Reply-To: <200104262132.OAA41723@akira.lanfear.com> References: <200104262132.OAA41723@akira.lanfear.com>
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On Thursday 26 April 2001 23:32, Marc W wrote: > I'm running a 1000Mhz Thunderbird on an A7V motherboard with PC133 > SDRAMs, and it rocks. Don't recommend IDE on such a system though -- > it's pretty painful with the latencies ... > > I plan to buy a DDR memory system next ... bang for the buck, the > athlons are hard to beat. > I have an ASUS A7M266 with 256MB of PC2100 memory and a 1200MHz Athlon with 133 MHz FSB. The very small gain in performance over using PC133 memory with a 133 MHz FSB is not worth the extra cost for DDR memory. Until DDR RAM gets to be as cheap as PC133 RAM I can only recommend staying away from DDR mobo's. -- Gary Jennejohn garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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