From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Mar 9 07:55:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA26235 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 07:55:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [204.160.242.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA26230 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 07:55:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from harlie.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [204.160.242.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA03937; Sun, 9 Mar 1997 07:55:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 07:55:23 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: David Greenman cc: Andreas Klemm , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD K6 [ was Re: RSA 56-bit key challenge ] In-Reply-To: <199703091115.DAA13329@root.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 9 Mar 1997, David Greenman wrote: > I haven't heard much about it. It's probably too soon to make any > judgements about the performance of Intel's "Pentium II" stuff. Unless they change the chip, we've got benchmarks that don't look too good. > This might be a reasonable way to go as long as you don't need SMP. > > >What do you think, will FreeBSD / gcc support the new CPU without > >problems ? Any clues ? Should I wait for the K6 or buy a PPro > >based board now ? > > We'll have to wait and see, but I suspect that it will work just fine. The > price of P6's has come down so much that I don't see any reason to delay. I think the current price/performance breaking curve is currently at a PPro 150 (unless you use a lot of 16 bit apps). Depending on quality and shopping ability, a PPro 150 and Natoma motherboard will run $400-$500, and the PPro 150 is 3/3 for safely overclocking to 166, which gets you the 33Mhz PCI bus. Actually, 2 of the PPros I've played around with ran at 180, at least well enough to do make a kernel and run same kernel. Yes, I know I'm a bad boy.