From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 27 2: 4:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout02.sul.t-online.com (mailout02.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D40A37B422 for ; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 02:04:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garyj@peedub.muc.de) Received: from fwd01.sul.t-online.com by mailout02.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 14t4AX-00007d-08; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:04:05 +0200 Received: from peedub.muc.de (320038014727-0001@[62.155.144.53]) by fmrl01.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 14t4AR-2HHpzcC; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:03:59 +0200 Received: by peedub.muc.de (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f3R943V27845; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:04:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from garyj) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Gary Jennejohn Reply-To: garyj@jennejohn.org To: Marc W , John Turnbull , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request advice on AMD CPU / motherboard combo for FreeBSD - jrt Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:04:02 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <200104262132.OAA41723@akira.lanfear.com> In-Reply-To: <200104262132.OAA41723@akira.lanfear.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01042711040202.00623@peedub.muc.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Sender: 320038014727-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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