Date: 29 Sep 1998 09:44:57 -0400 From: Chris Shenton <cshenton@uucom.com> To: wwoods@cybcon.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: This a decent system for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <86iui7m3s6.fsf@samizdat.uucom.com> In-Reply-To: William Woods's message of Tue, 29 Sep 1998 03:45:27 -0700 References: <3610BA47.1DDAD9A6@cybcon.com>
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William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com> writes: > Got a chance to buy this system. What ya think, how well would FreeBSD > perform on this as compared to a Single P200 chip with the rest of the > hardware the same ? I would run -current elf with SMP. > > Mid-tower case, 7 bay > Dual socket 8 motherboard, Ultra-wide onboard SCSI, onboard 10/100 > NIC > 2 Pentium Pro 150 cpu's > 32 meg RAM > Fujitsu 1 Gig Fast WIDE scsi HD > keyboard, floppy, video > NT 4.0 server > > They want $495.00, sound like a decent deal? If you can get them to remove NT4.0Server and refund the $500 list price that it supposedly costs, then it would be a *great* deal. :-) I just bought some pieces which might be faster/cheaper: $115 K6/2-300 $ 85 FIC 503+ mobo (with 1M L2 cache, can do 100Mhz bus with the K6/2-300) Other bits I priced: $85 64MB PC-100 10ns RAM DIMM (can operate at 100Mhz) $20 box, power supply $ 5 keyboard $15 floppy $115 Matrox Millenium II AGP 8MB (high end performance and price) Disk is cheap but unfortunately SCSI seems to be about twice the price of IDE/UDMA. I would guess the K6/2-300 would be significantly faster than a PPro-150 because of the high speed L2 cache path, and because multi-CPU scaling is not linear, faster than 2xPPro150. By my math, I'd say even as cheap as this appears, it's not as great a deal as buying the latest components. At least I hope so for my own sake! :-) Computer HW is such a bad investment, but they're so cheap I can't help myself! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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