From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 24 9:59:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.volant.org (phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40EE614DA3 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 09:59:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from patl@phoenix.volant.org) Received: from asimov.phoenix.volant.org ([205.179.79.65]) by phoenix.volant.org with smtp (Exim 1.92 #8) id 10Prw3-0000YN-00; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 09:59:23 -0800 Received: from localhost by asimov.phoenix.volant.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA18609; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 09:59:17 -0800 Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 09:59:17 -0800 (PST) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org Reply-To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Subject: Re: real newbie doubting between linux/freebsd To: Luc Segers Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <36F8AC08.3C7D14CD@vnet.atea.be> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have some questions: I would like to be a new computer with > all the newest hardware: Soundblaster Savage 4 videocard, Soundblaster > live soundcard, Pentium III (I will wait for the new very fast > motherboards). ... If you're really looking for speed, you might want to go for the AMD K6-III instead. It's cheaper; and the benchmarks say that it always beats an equally clocked Pentium III. (In some benchmarks a 450MHz K6-III out-performs a 500MHz P-III.) -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message