Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:00:55 +0100 From: Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org> To: Marc van Woerkom <marc.vanwoerkom@fernuni-hagen.de> Cc: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Cheap amd64 system? Message-ID: <200401272100.i0RL0tFw006309@peedub.jennejohn.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Marc van Woerkom <marc.vanwoerkom@fernuni-hagen.de> <oprzkzzch1dmv4ke@mailstore.fernuni-hagen.de>
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Marc van Woerkom writes: > I would love to join development, is there cheap hardware > available already? > Depends on what you buy. Cheap is a socket 754 box with an AMD64 3000+ (only 512MB of cache and 2GHz clock). > E.g. is it possible to take my old amd-k7 box and > just replace mainboard and perhaps ram to have > a usable amd64 system? > That's what I did. In fact, I'm still using some of my old PC2100 RAM in the box since the Infineon DDR400 DIMM I bought runs at CL3 and is slow as molasses. I did some tests and noticed only a few percentage points speed increase using the Infineon DIMM by itself. Since I wanted more memory I just stuck an old DIMM in with the new one. > How much money must I save at least? > I also had to buy a new power supply since my old one didn't have the funky 4-pole connector on it which all modern motherboards seem to require (AFAIK mostly to support the ridiculously power-hungry graphics cards which no normal person would want to use anyway). I payed about 450 Euros a few weeks ago for mobo, CPU and PSU. YMMV. > Is it necessary to put in more than 4gigs of RAM, > to test the system adequatley? > No. What really needs work, like 32 bit emulation, doesn't require a lot of memory. --- Gary Jennejohn / garyj[at]jennejohn.org gj[at]freebsd.org gj[at]denx.de
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