From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 5 04:18:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA19969 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 04:18:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA19943 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 04:18:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA08267; Fri, 5 Dec 1997 13:18:27 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199712051218.NAA08267@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: Should I buy a Cyrix processor? In-Reply-To: <28999.881323642@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Dec 5, 97 04:07:22 am" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 5 Dec 1997 13:18:22 +0100 (MET) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.dk, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, Pierre.Beyssac@hsc.fr, mark@vmunix.com, grog@lemis.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.dk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Jordan K. Hubbard who wrote: > > Actually both 3.5 & 4 works on both my P6's :), it wont run 266Mhz though > > but 240Mhz (4*60) works just fine ... > > I wonder which is actually faster in practice. 233/66 or 240/60. :-) Depends, if you have cpu intensive tasks 240 is the fastest, else there is not much difference: 233=57mins35secs 240=57mins23secs worldstones... It seems the P6 is not that bus speed dependent.. I'll have a go on 75Mhz bus soon... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..