From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Oct 21 18:31:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA08890 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 18:31:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from electric.tbe.net (electric.tbe.net [207.99.115.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA08885 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 18:31:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gary@tbe.net) Received: (qmail 22467 invoked from network); 22 Oct 1998 01:30:45 -0000 Received: from electric.tbe.net (gary@207.99.115.10) by electric.tbe.net with SMTP; 22 Oct 1998 01:30:45 -0000 Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 21:30:44 -0400 (EDT) From: "Gary D. Margiotta" To: Steve Kaczkowski cc: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" , Eddie Fry , isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cyrix MII-300 Processor & FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <362E7D95.3EFA03ED@inc.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Just bought an AMD K2-266 3D, with a Tyan 100Mhz board and 1 Mb of cache... Thing _screams_ for $350 (128 Megs 100Mhz SDRAM incl.). I'd reccommend going the AMD route first over Cyrix, but I'd definitely pick either over any Intel chip for the price/performance, all except for the higher end math-intensive functions... The Intels still are best there... We used nothing but the older Cyrix chips, regular and MMX, up to 233, in our old servers. Well outperformed the equivalent Pentium, but it did still leave a little to be desired when doing higher end math, like log file analyzing, etc. For that, we had a PPRo, and that was more than enough. ______________________________________________________________ -Gary Margiotta Voice: (973) 835-9696 TBE Internet Services Fax: (973) 835-2133 http://www.tbe.net E-Mail: gary@tbe.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message