From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Dec 15 10:28:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from sandcastle.ny.ans.net (sandcastle.ny.ans.net [147.225.51.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7D991539D for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 10:28:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doherty@ans.net) Received: from localhost (doherty@localhost) by sandcastle.ny.ans.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA21459; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 13:28:19 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: sandcastle.ny.ans.net: doherty owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 13:28:18 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Doherty X-Sender: doherty@sandcastle.ny.ans.net To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Warner Losh , hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sweet spot In-Reply-To: <11217.945282092@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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