From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Nov 12 09:47:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-smp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA08609 for smp-outgoing; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 09:47:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [199.201.191.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA08580; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 09:47:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from MindBender.serv.net by mx.serv.net (8.7.5/SERV Revision: 2.30) id JAA18456; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 09:46:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA06447; Tue, 12 Nov 1996 09:46:43 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199611121746.JAA06447@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Andreas Klemm cc: "Marc G. Fournier" , Steve Passe , smp@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GigaByte GA-586DX-512 Motherboard In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 12 Nov 96 12:26:01 +0100. Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 09:46:42 -0800 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Many people say, that it's better to choose a > - 200 MHz CPU instead of a 180 MHz CPU > - 166 MHz CPU instead of a 150 MHz CPU > - 133 MHz CPU instead of a 150 MHz CPU These are OK, although I'd put "166 MHz CPU instead of a 180"... > - 100 MHz CPU instead of a 120 MHz CPU No, in my experience, a 120 is actually faster than a 100 for everything I've benchmarked. The 120 is 20% faster than a 100, but the advantage is much smaller than that. The difference is small enough that I can say that a 133 will probably be faster than a 150 in most cases, and a 166 will definitely be faster than a 180, in almost every case. Note also that these are specifically Pentiums. Pentium Pros and/or Cyrix 6x86s might have totally different characteristics (but I would expect them to roughly follow the same trend). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------