From owner-freebsd-smp Fri Sep 10 12:41:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from pi.yip.org (yip.org [199.45.111.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E68DA1570E; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 12:41:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Received: from localhost (melange@localhost) by pi.yip.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA02629; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 15:41:05 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 15:41:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Bob K X-Sender: melange@localhost To: Neil Bradley Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CPU upgrade In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Neil Bradley wrote: > > I am currently running a Dual PP200 system with 128meg memory and am > > looking to upgrade the processors. What would you reccomend in the ay > > of fairly inexpensive processors? I was looking at the AMD line, mabe > > a k6-350, what do you think. Are these the same socket and voltage set > > up? > > Nope. The K6/K6-2's are socket 7, the Pentium Pro is not (I even forgot > the name of the socket). As long as you're not doing floating point, the Socket 8. You can only stick PPro's in it. > K6 is quite the viable option. FP Performance on it sucks compared to the > Pentium (I do a lot of 3d rendering so I have quite a bit of hardcore > experience with the K6). The one downside is that only Intel processors support APIC (the SMP we know and love); AMD's support OpenPIC, which is not supported by any known motherboard or chipset out there. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message