Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 16:41:17 -0700 From: "Gregory P. Smith" <greg@nas.nasa.gov> To: Omar Thameen <omar@clifford.inch.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cpu/motherboard recommendations Message-ID: <199808102341.QAA19134@ryouko.nas.nasa.gov> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 Aug 1998 18:44:54 EDT." <19980810184454.A16048@clifford.inch.com>
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> The choices we've narrowed down to are an AMD K6-2 with a Super 7 > motherboard (MVP3 chipset), or an Intel Pentium II with a motherboard > having a 440BX chipset (probably an ASUS P2B-D since we've had good > experiences with them). > > I'm getting conflicting information about the advantages of each. > Some have said that the AMDs perform better because they have > bigger caches (both level 1 and level 2), while others have said > that Intel's PII cache may be smaller, but it's better quality. I always recommend non-Intel (my personal bias). However, the AMD K6-2 currently has a 300Mhz, 3x 100Mhz bus version while the PII has a 400Mhz 4x 100Mhz bus version. Visit www.alternativecpu.com for some good information on the non Intel CPUs. The AMD K6-2 option will be a cheaper for the 100Mhz bus speed (the important thing for a server; good I/O..). Keep in mind that the only PII with 100Mhz bus speed is the expensive 400Mhz option. I'm sure there are people who will recommend Intel (note that I didn't get discuss the cache issues as I don't know them off the top of my head). Personally I have great experiences with my Cyrix 6x86MX here but I wouldn't recommend that for a server as it only does 75 & 83Mhz bus speeds. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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