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Date:      Sat, 29 Jun 2002 09:58:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:      A Ling <fbsd2@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Memory speed/size vs buildworld time?
Message-ID:  <20020629165819.83708.qmail@web20204.mail.yahoo.com>

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Greetings all,
   I'm about to upgrade a box (on a budget), and I was
wondering whether the extra cost (or smaller amount)
of PC2700 DDR memory would be offset by big (say
>20%) differences in time for a buildworld, for 
example?  For little more than the price of 256 Mb of 
PC2700, I can get 512 Mb of PC2100 from Crucial.  I 
realize SCSI vs IDE may make more of a difference, 
but unfortunately that's not an option.  The 
processor would be a socket 478 P4 1.7 GHz, and I'm 
considering the ASUS P4S533 motherboard (SiS645DX 
chip set).  The disks to be migrated are:

ad0: 9541MB <WDC WD100EB-00BHF0> [19386/16/63] at
ata0-master UDMA100
ad1: 76319MB <WDC WD800BB-32BSA0> [155061/16/63] at
ata0-slave UDMA100

Comments on motherboards also welcome; I've got PCI
NIC & video cards I can use, but like the fact that 
the C-Media chip set on the ASUS seems to be
supported for sound.  If this would be better on 
-questions or -hardware, I could repost there. Thanks.
Alex


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