Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 12:54:13 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com> To: Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dual-Athlon vs Dual-PIII ... opinions? Message-ID: <39982435.18498D4F@wmptl.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008092239250.54797-100000@thelab.hub.org> <004a01c00334$5b427a80$b4440ace@mark8>
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Josh Paetzel wrote:
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> From: "The Hermit Hacker" <scrappy@hub.org>
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> Subject: Dual-Athlon vs Dual-PIII ... opinions?
>
> >
> > I want to upgrade my Dual-Celeron machine to a Dual-?? and haven't got a
> > clue which way to go ... AMD vs Intel ...
> >
> > AMD is cheaper but I've been 'Intel' since I started with computers
> > ... any drawbacks as far as SMP under FreeBSD? benefits?
> >
> > if I throw cost away, are the Intel's still the better choice for a Unix
> > environment? I heard somehwere that AMD was great for gamers ... but what
> > about "real work"?
> >
>
> I think that you have to stick with the intel solution. I went down the
> non-intel road a couple of times and it never turned out to be a good thing
> in the end.
>
> I recently went in to upgrade my p2-450. I had a dream of getting an athlon
> with that new fancy 133 mghz FSB and ata/66 support and all that fun stuff.
> I walked out with a p3-700 on a good old 440bx asus motherboard. Yes, the
> athlons were a little bit cheaper than the p3s, but then the motherboards
> were more expensive. When it came time to plunk down the hard earned cash I
> had to go with what I knew....(but then, I'm still running 3.4, too!)
>
> Josh
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Athlons run a 200mhz FSB, NOT A 133mhz FSB - that'd be your Intel PIII's
bus speed, and only at certain clock frequencies at that. Not to mention
the full-speed cache that the Athlon offers. I'd bet than an AMD Athlon
700mhz CPU running in a similar configuration on an Asus K7M/K7V
mainboard would out-perform your PIII at 700mhz running on an Asus 440bx
based board.
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