Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 01:05:51 -0400 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net> To: Paul Murphy <pnmurphy@home.com> Cc: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.osd.bsdi.com>, ler@lerctr.org, grog@lemis.com, Greg@fatcanary.com.au, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD K6-2 / 550 Message-ID: <20000705010551.A7490@cokane.yi.org> In-Reply-To: <3962A197.62560B50@home.com>; from pnmurphy@home.com on Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 10:47:59PM -0400 References: <200007050229.VAA40330@aurora.sol.net> <3962A197.62560B50@home.com>
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Paul Murphy had the audacity to say: > 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 > The cpu's are a little different. The difference being that the Cyrstal 4324 is definately not anywhere near as good quality as a Sounblaster AWE32. The AMD chips, for the price are better performers than the Intel CPUs. You also don't want to compare speed for speed performance, try upgradeability and price comparisons. Maybe a K6-2 266 is almost as fast as a P55C-233MMZ for non-optimized FPU math, the P55C is about 2x the price in cost. If you buy a K6-2 400 (still cheaper than a P55C 233 and even a PII-300, yet kick both asses) you are getting better performance for a cheaper price. If you compare the PII-400 vs. the K6-2 400, of course the PII-400 will win, but they are about $130. The K6-2 400 is only $40-$50 and dropping. Just wait until you can get a nice Socket A board for your server with an early Duron 600 for $70 for the CPU and $100 for the mobo. Beat that with intel chips? I don't think so. On top of that, the Duron's will be SMP-able in the near future with the AMD770. > 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 > -- Coleman Kane President, UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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