Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 12:10:42 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> To: Linh Pham <lplist@closedsrc.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Marc W <mwlist@lanfear.com>, Kyle <freebsd@sysmach.com?>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: the AMD factor in FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0104171210170.4840-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104171458290.44584-100000@q.closedsrc.org>
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On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Linh Pham wrote: > On 2001-04-17, Vincent Poy scribbled: > > # The other question is, will the AMD Athlon be a whole lot faster > # than a equivelent Intel PIII? and what about P4 support? or is that > # really worst than a PIII and AMD in terms of performance? > > Theoretically, a dual Athlon system would beat a dual Pentium III setup > not only because it has a better FPU, more L1 cache, but also because it > uses a 100/200Mhz or a 133/266Mhz DDR FSB. Also, a dual Pentium III uses > a shared bus to connect to the northbridge whereas a dual Athlon would > have two dedicated connections to the northbridge. This is where DDR > memory would have more of an impact on performance than SDRAM->DDR on a > single Athlon system. > > -- > Linh Pham > [lplist@closedsrc.org] > > // 404b - Brain not found Thanks for the insight but what about in a Single CPU environment? Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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