From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Dec 15 10:21:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A60FA150D4 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 10:21:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id TAA11219; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 19:21:32 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Warner Losh Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sweet spot In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 Dec 1999 11:01:16 MST." <199912151801.LAA61965@harmony.village.org> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 19:21:32 +0100 Message-ID: <11217.945282092@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <199912151801.LAA61965@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes: > >What's the current sweet spot for intel systems? I'm looking to spend >about $1500-$2000 on a screaming builder box and was wondering what >the current sweet spot in the hardware curve is?? Go for an Athlon and overclock it. My 500MHz is a happy camper at 700MHz (The chip is marked 600MHz btw). -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message