From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Jul 19 13:45:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA11439 for hardware-outgoing; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 13:45:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sparkie.gnofn.org (sparkie.gnofn.org [206.27.168.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA11433 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 13:45:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sparkie.gnofn.org (sparkie.gnofn.org [206.27.168.35]) by sparkie.gnofn.org (8.7.Beta.10/8.7.Beta.10) with SMTP id PAA20772; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 15:45:04 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 15:45:04 -0500 (CDT) From: Craig Johnston To: dkelly@hiwaay.net cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Non-Intels In-Reply-To: <199707180022.TAA07175@nexgen.hiwaay.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 17 Jul 1997 dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote: > > I'd like to see AMD succeed. Maybe I'll upgrade this thing in a couple of > months to a K6 if the problems are solved. In the next couple of weeks I'll > be needing several systems for work, were downtime costs much more than at > home. Pentium 133's are looking attractive. > Ack. Go for a K5. I build FreeBSD boxes with them exclusively, they work like champs. A K5-PR166 is about $100 now. It will be noticeably faster than an iP133. I put 'em on the Asus HX board. Great price/performance and never any noted instability, at ~= $250 for the combo. That's for work systems.. for fun I run a K5-PR166 at home on the ABIT IT5H jumperless HX board with a bus speed of 83Mhz and a CPU multiplier of 1.5 rather than the 66Mhz/1.75 standard bus speed/multiplier combo. Even with the 83Mhz bus, the system makes world over and over and stays up until the power goes out or I want a new kernel. It's also real fast -- I'd love to benchmark it vs. an iP200. -Craig