From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jul 30 9:54:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from george.lbl.gov (george.lbl.gov [131.243.2.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 667A9151C3 for ; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:54:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jin@george.lbl.gov) Received: (from jin@localhost) by george.lbl.gov (8.9.3/8.9.2) id JAA19656; Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:51:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:51:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199907301651.JAA19656@george.lbl.gov> From: jin@george.lbl.gov To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, loree.3@wright.edu Subject: Re: 100Mhz Bus Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It really depends on what is your goal. Unless you have entire I/O related apps for most time as system running. See the middle column in Table-9 on P.9 www-itg.lbl/gov/~jin/performance.pen.ps You do need PC-100 for the 100 MHz bus, but not for the CPU. That is what cache is there. -Jin loree.3@wright.edu wrote: > This is not really freebsd related, but I just ordered a K-6 3D Now! 400 > cpu, and, not really thinking about it, I am still using 128 MB of good > old EDO ram. Do I need 100 mhz memory to use this cpu? Or does it > depended upon the mb I am using (FIC VA503+ super baby 7). > > Signed, > Mr. Stupid To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message