From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jun 29 9:58:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A586A37B400 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 09:58:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web20204.mail.yahoo.com (web20204.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 197C643E1A for ; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 09:58:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fbsd2@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20020629165819.83708.qmail@web20204.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [209.249.182.113] by web20204.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 29 Jun 2002 09:58:19 PDT Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 09:58:19 -0700 (PDT) From: A Ling Subject: Memory speed/size vs buildworld time? To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 [19386/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 ad1: 76319MB [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 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message