From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 13 15:11:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA00621 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 15:11:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA00572 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 22:11:27 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA05726; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 15:11:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 15:11:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: anthony@sohopros.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: motherboard advice? In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980412163645.00951180@pop.flash.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 Sun, 12 Apr 1998 anthony@sohopros.com wrote: > I am going to purchase a new motherboard and CPU in a > week or so and would like advice on the two I have > chosen. > > CPU > 1. Intel Pentium 166 > $178.00 > 2. Cyrix M2-233 MMX > $177.00 > > Motherboard > PC Wave M575 Motherbaord, TX-PRO Chipset. > > This price includes board, CPU and fan. > > Does FreeBSD support Cyrix architecture? Yes. Make sure you run something very current some some early releases in the 2.2x series didn't support the M2. > If so, and the two board are the identical except for the > processor wouldn't I want the faster processor? The Cyrix processors generally have slower floating-point units as compared to Intel processors, so that may cancel any gain you get with the faster clock cycle. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message