From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 20 14:07:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A627416A4CF for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 14:07:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F61943D49 for ; Sat, 20 Nov 2004 14:07:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.250] (pool-68-161-115-118.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.115.118]) by pi.codefab.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iAKE7p6s002958 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 20 Nov 2004 09:07:53 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <419F4FAF.8090005@mac.com> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 09:07:43 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dude Dude References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.5 required=5.5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on pi.codefab.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cpu choice X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 14:07:57 -0000 Dude Dude wrote: > i've a Athlon XP 1.8 and i want to rebuild my system. > I was thinking in a AMD athlon barton 3.1 and a good socket A mobo like > Asus A7N8X E-Deluxe, howvere barton is not anymore avaiable at the market, > so what you think i shuld do ? www.newegg.com has the "Athlon XP 3200+ Barton, 400MHz FSB, 512K Cache" for $170, as well the other FSB speeds of 333 and 266 MHz. You undoubtedly could find other vendors which have them as well. > Buy a socket 939 board and a Athlon64 3.2 > or > Buy a socket A board and sempron 2.8 > or > Buy a socket 752 board and a sempron 3.1 ?? If you are willing to replace your MB and get new RAM as well as getting a new CPU, then going to AMD-64 is reasonable. If you want to continue to use your existing MB and memory, then simply get a faster socket A CPU. -- -Chuck