Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 13:28:18 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Doherty <doherty@ans.net> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sweet spot Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.05.9912151324010.19051-100000@sandcastle.ny.ans.net> In-Reply-To: <11217.945282092@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > 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). I just built an inexpensive multi-media system for my kids and found that an equivilent Intel Pentium III system to be about $150.00 cheaper than an Athlon. The motherboards are more expensive and the vendors at the computer fair were not pushing Athlon at all. I wanted to buy an Athlon but could not see paying a premium for it. Jim Doherty > > -- > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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