From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 4 19:46:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.rdc3.on.home.com (mail2.rdc3.on.home.com [24.2.9.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D50137B52C for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 19:46:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pnmurphy@home.com) Received: from home.com ([24.42.55.28]) by mail2.rdc3.on.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000705024654.KDOF1114.mail2.rdc3.on.home.com@home.com>; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 19:46:54 -0700 Message-ID: <3962A197.62560B50@home.com> Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 22:46:47 -0400 From: Paul Murphy X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Greco Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , ler@lerctr.org, grog@lemis.com, Greg@fatcanary.com.au, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD K6-2 / 550 References: <200007050229.VAA40330@aurora.sol.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joe Greco wrote: > > Ditto. I'm slowly but surely dumping all my Intel Pentium stuff, plus most > of my 486 or older stuff :-) I've been using the ASUS P/I-P55T2P4, the > venerable Triton II overclocker's board, which I've got a plethora of, and > some P5A's. My baseline systems are now K6/233's, ranging up to > K6-III-400's (which still seem to be faster than their K6-2 higher speed > counterparts). Only using Intel for the SMP stuff now. And on my laptop Is there a particular reason for going with the AMD's over Intel? When buying computers I have always stayed with the Intel CPU's because I thought it was similar to Soundblaster vs. others: all the others say they are "Soundblaster compatible" so why not buy the real thing? [forgive me if this sounds naive but it has been a while since I have bought a NEW computer] -- Paul Murphy http://members.home.com/pnmurphy/ Home Lat: 43° 33' 29" N, Lon: 79° 39' 03" W Work Lat: 43° 25' 30" N, Lon: 79° 42' 34" W To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message