From owner-freebsd-smp Sun Nov 9 09:12:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA23023 for smp-outgoing; Sun, 9 Nov 1997 09:12:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA22994; Sun, 9 Nov 1997 09:11:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@glue.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA27031; Sun, 9 Nov 1997 11:08:47 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: picnic.mat.net: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 11:08:46 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@localhost To: Alfred Perlstein cc: Gary Palmer , freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Best processor? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > dual 300mhz PIIs will beat dual PPro 200mhz, but i think i't almost better > to get a dual PPro 200mhz+512k instead of dual PII 233mhz. Where did you get that information? Because the difference in cache (not the size, the architecture) I'd have suspected that the Ppro would be faster in both cases. > > -Alfred > > On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Gary Palmer wrote: > > > > > Which is the best processor for a SMP system? PPro or PII? > > > > Also, as an aside, looking at the Tyan Titan Pro board, I see you need > > `VRM's, but none of the online catalogues have such things. Do they > > come with the board? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Gary > > -- > > Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member > > FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info > > > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------