From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 24 14:13: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from seven.slakin.net (adsl-67-112-126-134.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net [67.112.126.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BE1537B400 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 14:12:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.slakin.net [127.0.0.1]) by seven.slakin.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E252708; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 14:13:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 14:13:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Snow To: Jud Cc: scott.mitchell@mail.com, , , Subject: Re: [OFF] Pentium vs Athlon which is better In-Reply-To: <1024952871.4c50fffcjud@myrealbox.com> Message-ID: <20020624141205.U34522-100000@seven.slakin.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am running K-Byte RAM fine, as well as some no name brand. Both boxes are running strong. * * * * * * * * Matt Snow (@) drama@slakin.net (w) http://slakin.net. On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Jud wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Mitchell > To: Rodolfo Gonzalez > Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 21:18:12 +0100 > Subject: Re: [OFF] Pentium vs Athlon which is better > > On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 12:10:07PM -0400, Rodolfo Gonzalez wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Matt Snow wrote: > > > > As an addendum, any opinion on components? [motherboard, ram, HD, NIC etc] > > > > There's a small problem with AMD's, you need a very good fan or cooling > > system. > > [snip] > Make sure your cooling and power supply are AMD approved, and use > major-brand RAM -- I've personally never had any problems with > Crucial/Micron RAM. > > Scott > > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > > > I like Crucial myself - which brings up a point re DDR > RAM. DDR is less expensive than RDRAM. DDR is mainly > identified with AMD chips, though there are Intel > DDR motherboards available. > > I've owned a couple of AMD CPUs with DDR RAM > motherboards and have been quite happy with them. > > If you want to use more than one CPU, my impression > from reading (I have no experience nor expertise in > this area, so take this for what little it's worth) > is that AMD's support is at an earlier stage than is > Intel's. It's also my impression (with the same > disclaimer) that improved multi-CPU performance and > stability is a goal of the FreeBSD project for the > 5.x (-CURRENT) version. > > Jud > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message