From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 24 22:01:02 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 2511D16A4CE for ; Mon, 24 May 2004 22:01:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [198.92.228.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA27043D1F for ; Mon, 24 May 2004 22:01:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from racerx.makeworld.com (racerx@racerx.makeworld.com [198.92.228.34]) by makeworld.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4P50YBg083020 for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 00:00:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) From: Chris To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 00:00:33 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20040525044508.GA13463@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20040525044508.GA13463@tao.thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200405250000.34006.racerx@makeworld.com> Subject: Re: which kinds of AMD work withh FBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: racerx@makeworld.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 05:01:02 -0000 On Monday 24 May 2004 11:45 pm, Gary Kline wrote: > Fellow BSD'ers, > > What kinds of the newer AMD processors worth with FreeBSD? > It might be better long-run to buy a barebones system than > mess with upgrading 5-yr-old boxen. I'm thinking of something > in the >= 2GHz rangewith 512MB and a 60 or 80G drive. So far > I've stuck with Intel since my first 8085/8088. No problems > with Unix. If AMD is a good enough clone, it may be time to > give it a shot. > > thanks for any input, > > gary For now, I'm using an AthlonXP 2100+ Aside from the overheating issues I have (now corrected) it's running just dandy. Some other specs: 1024 meg of RAM 80 gig drive FireGL 1000 vid. -- Best regards, Chris