Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 07:55:23 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD K6 [ was Re: RSA 56-bit key challenge ] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970309074553.1719A-100000@harlie.bfd.com> In-Reply-To: <199703091115.DAA13329@root.com>
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On Sun, 9 Mar 1997, David Greenman wrote: > I haven't heard much about it. It's probably too soon to make any > judgements about the performance of Intel's "Pentium II" stuff. Unless they change the chip, we've got benchmarks that don't look too good. > This might be a reasonable way to go as long as you don't need SMP. > > >What do you think, will FreeBSD / gcc support the new CPU without > >problems ? Any clues ? Should I wait for the K6 or buy a PPro > >based board now ? > > We'll have to wait and see, but I suspect that it will work just fine. The > price of P6's has come down so much that I don't see any reason to delay. I think the current price/performance breaking curve is currently at a PPro 150 (unless you use a lot of 16 bit apps). Depending on quality and shopping ability, a PPro 150 and Natoma motherboard will run $400-$500, and the PPro 150 is 3/3 for safely overclocking to 166, which gets you the 33Mhz PCI bus. Actually, 2 of the PPros I've played around with ran at 180, at least well enough to do make a kernel and run same kernel. Yes, I know I'm a bad boy.
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