Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 03:41:25 +0000 From: Joshua Fielden <shag@concentric.net> To: "Gary D. Margiotta" <gary@tbe.net> Cc: Joe Diehl <joed@ptn.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Nevermind: System Rebooting when starting X] Message-ID: <33D188E5.E8F24625@concentric.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970719222540.21655A-100000@lightning.tbe.net>
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Gary D. Margiotta wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > > I just upgraded my Pentium 60 system to an Asus P55T2P4S (on-board > > AIC-7880) and I temporarily have an AMD K5-90 in the system until > > I buy either a K6-200 or and Intel 166-MMX (any recommendations for > > a processor under FreeBSD?). > > I have been watching the -hardware list, and quite a few people are having > problems with the new K6-200's, but that can also be because of > non-correct settings on the MB. The Intel 166-MMX is fast, though you pay > for it...If you want a decent processor for the buck, I would reccommend > looking in to the Cyrix line. We run three 150+'s from a while back and > they perform well and we haven't had any problems with them. I heard the > 200+'s are a good chip, but you need a good motherboard for them.. The > Asus you have should handle it no problem. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't > mind having a new Intel 200-MMX, but I just can't see spending that much > for it yet. As you noticed, I am a little biased for the Cyrix chips. We > have had pretty good luck with them, so we like them. > > Just my $.02 > > -Gary Margiotta > TBE Internet Services > http://www.tbe.net Doesn't MMX use <I'm not a chip engineer, don't flame me for terminology :-) > opcodes and/or instructions that were previously reserved for FLOPs, therefore having to do context-switching at a very slow speed to do any FPU-intensive operations? I had a friend who ran Quake on a P200-MMX, and said it ran faster on his P-133. <Quake is one of the few games that uses complex FLOPs to achieve it's results> Please gently correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't that make MMX non-optimal for most BSD apps? JF
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