From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 1 04:41:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 357EE37B401 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 04:41:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from sferics.mongueurs.net (sferics.mongueurs.net [81.80.147.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6180E43FA3 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 04:41:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david@landgren.net) Received: from landgren.net (81-80-147-206.bpinet.com [81.80.147.206]) by sferics.mongueurs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E088ADFA for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2003 14:41:36 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3E8988C2.6060202@landgren.net> Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 14:40:34 +0200 From: David Landgren Organization: A thousand golden eyes are watching User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "BSD." References: <35BC9957B8699C42AB3A665E3C565655654D66@is~tmxmailhmo1.intranet.telmex.com> In-Reply-To: <35BC9957B8699C42AB3A665E3C565655654D66@is~tmxmailhmo1.intranet.telmex.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: Which Processor and motherboard is better (new to FreeBSD) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 12:41:38 -0000 Paredes Sánchez Martín A. wrote: > Hi: > > I want to build a new PC with FreeBSD, which processor > is best for FreeBSD. > > Intel builds processors and motherboards, which gave me > a feel of good performance between this two elements. > > Intel has something called Hyper-Threading Technology, > Which turbo charges your PC to respond to today's > multitasking lifestyle. 4.7 knows about hyper-threading, insofar as the kernel config file admits an 'HTT' option. As to whether it's better or not to have it, I can't really say. 2.4GHz is so ridiculously fast (kernel compiles in less than two minutes, postfix in less than a minute)... I suspect it will be difficult to detect the difference between with/without in everyday use. I'm building a new mail relay, and it turns out the machine was specified as RAID-5. I suspect that that is going to have a much more adverse impact on performance than HTT or not. As to "responding to today's multitasking lifestyle", I sooner see PAE implemented in the kernel, to unlock the memory I have above 4Gb. David