From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 30 10:32:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA27869 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 10:32:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA27791 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 10:32:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk) Received: from (ragnet.demon.co.uk) [158.152.46.40] by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0yr4Fz-0005rK-00; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 17:31:52 +0000 Received: from dmlb by ragnet.demon.co.uk with local (Exim 1.82 #1) id 0yqtcQ-0002FQ-00; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 07:10:18 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <13720.27283.95382.801320@compound.east> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 07:10:18 +0100 (BST) From: Duncan Barclay To: Tony Kimball Subject: Re: PPro vs PII Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd@atipa.com Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 30-Jun-98 Tony Kimball wrote: > I'll move this to chat. > > Quoth Atipa on Mon, 29 June: >: [snip lots of alpha stuff] > > I'd feel pretty good buying Alpha hardware right about now if only > there was an upgrade roadmap. (That's always been the illusory carrot > motivating hobbyist hardware choices -- historically favoring intel -- > hasn't it? Modular upgrades, carrying over hardware from generation > to generation.) > But it doesn't really hold true now for us hobbyist. Things change so fast at the motherboard level that unless you upgrade every 6months you need to buy MB, CPU and RAM new each time. I've just spent about 3weeks trying to work out whether to get a PII, a super-7 or a "good" TX to upgrade from my 486. In the end I went for a TX board and spent the money I saved on a few toys (like a CDROM/sound card etc.). There was no way that a PII or socket 7 board would survive a cpu upgrade in say 18months time, which is when I feel I will want to upgrade again. Duncan Very happy with an upgrade resulting in about 8times performance improvement. Would be less inpressed with a PII-233 to PII-333 upgrade :-) --- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. ________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message