From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 21 9:13:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mylanders.com (mylanders.com [206.252.160.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 333EE159E6 for ; Fri, 21 May 1999 09:13:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nat@mylanders.com) Received: from localhost (nat@localhost) by mylanders.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA10065; Fri, 21 May 1999 11:18:50 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 11:18:50 -0500 (CDT) From: To: gummibear@we.mediaone.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and K6-2's In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19990520220139.007bf5c0@we.mediaone.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 20 May 1999 gummibear@we.mediaone.net wrote: > > > I'm thinking of upgrading my old P133 FreeBSD machine with a new > Motherboard, RAM and an AMD K6-2 350. They're less than 60 bucks now. :) > I'm thinking about 64 megs of RAM minimum, maybe more depending on my > budget. I have a Win95 machine running on an ASUS P5A motherboard which > seems really nice. Thinking of getting another just the same, or maybe an > ASUS P5A-B which is pretty much the same but it's baby AT size. I plan to > use the machine as a X Workstation, HTTP-FTP-TELNET server, NATD Gateway, > and SAMBA server. I really don't want to spend more than 300 bucks for > Motherboard, CPU, RAM, and Case (if neccessary). > > My questions are: > > 1.) Does FreeBSD and AMD K6-2 350 make a good combination as far as > performance, speed, and stability goes? Has worked real well for me... > 2.) Other than ASUS motherboards, what would be another good choice for a > low cost FreeBSD Workstation/Server? Besides the ASUS, I have used TYAN and FIC motherboards and have had good luck. Nat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message