From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 10 04:25:22 2004 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 67ED116A4CE for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 04:25:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from out011.verizon.net (out011pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 249F543D2F for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 04:25:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.160.202.196]) by out011.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040210122521.QIWR17235.out011.verizon.net@mac.com> for ; Tue, 10 Feb 2004 06:25:21 -0600 Message-ID: <4028CDA5.3010904@mac.com> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 07:25:09 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20040209121420.G13061@ganymede.hub.org> <59D53984-5B26-11D8-8AE0-003065ABFD92@mac.com> <20040209141200.K13061@ganymede.hub.org> <45C0AC64-5B31-11D8-8AE0-003065ABFD92@mac.com> <20040210042518.GA53510@wiz.com> In-Reply-To: <20040210042518.GA53510@wiz.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out011.verizon.net from [68.160.202.196] at Tue, 10 Feb 2004 06:25:21 -0600 Subject: Re: AMD vs Intel ... 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, 10 Feb 2004 12:25:22 -0000 Marc Wiz wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 01:53:38PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: >> OK. The price difference for AMD vs. Intel is pretty significant, but >> be aware that you'll also pay a significant premium for dual-proc >> hardware versus single-proc machines: compare an AMD 2400MP versus the >> 2400XP price, or the 2.4GHz Xeon P4 vs. a Northwood P4, and then factor >> in the additional costs for a MP-capable motherboard. > > Try about $159 for a dual processor motherboard from Tyan. > > I just bought a S2466 for about that much brand new. You can get a decent single-proc AMD motherboard for about $55 (Shuttle AK39N w/ VIA KT400 + VT8235, onboard LAN and audio), which is one third the cost of your dual-proc MB, although obviously one can spend more on either type. -- -Chuck