From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 22 11:38:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5890E37B424 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 11:38:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3MIXhn18663; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 14:33:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200104221833.f3MIXhn18663@fac13.ds.psu.edu> To: Vincent Poy , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: the AMD factor in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Apr 2001 20:39:28 -1000." Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 14:33:43 -0400 From: "~/.signature" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG vincent vocalized, > That's all that matters since I can't tell the difference for > normal day to day operations with Windows between a PII400 and a PIII933. > I guess I'm not a gamer. It's not just gaming. Heavy computational work is my normal daily routine. With about $5k in funding standing by, we're holding off for the dual athlon boards with ddr. We also just specced out a server/computational platform, and found we could match $20k of RS/6000 with about $12k of Dell PIII with 2G of Crucial memory and 3d party *big* drives--We'd have had about 72 or 144G of storage from ibm/sun, probably just ultrascsi, but we'll have 300G of Raid 5 u160 with a ready standby drive and a 15krpm swap drive . . . and about $7,000 left over . . which means that rather than going $5k over budget, we're enough under budget for an extra blade 100 or bsd box . . . It's just a pity that the money rules for this machine require it to be received before June 30 (after going through University bid/purchase processes), otherwise it could wait for dual 1.5Ghz palominos, too . . . hawk, who can always use more processing power . . . ---- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message