From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 18:28:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0379A37BBA8; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 18:28:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from mark8 (hutch-652.hutchtel.net [206.10.68.180]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id UAA05493; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 20:28:06 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <004a01c00334$5b427a80$b4440ace@mark8> From: "Josh Paetzel" To: "The Hermit Hacker" , Cc: References: Subject: Re: Dual-Athlon vs Dual-PIII ... opinions? Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 20:29:34 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "The Hermit Hacker" To: Cc: Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 8:46 PM Subject: Dual-Athlon vs Dual-PIII ... opinions? > > I want to upgrade my Dual-Celeron machine to a Dual-?? and haven't got a > clue which way to go ... AMD vs Intel ... > > AMD is cheaper but I've been 'Intel' since I started with computers > ... any drawbacks as far as SMP under FreeBSD? benefits? > > if I throw cost away, are the Intel's still the better choice for a Unix > environment? I heard somehwere that AMD was great for gamers ... but what > about "real work"? > I think that you have to stick with the intel solution. I went down the non-intel road a couple of times and it never turned out to be a good thing in the end. I recently went in to upgrade my p2-450. I had a dream of getting an athlon with that new fancy 133 mghz FSB and ata/66 support and all that fun stuff. I walked out with a p3-700 on a good old 440bx asus motherboard. Yes, the athlons were a little bit cheaper than the p3s, but then the motherboards were more expensive. When it came time to plunk down the hard earned cash I had to go with what I knew....(but then, I'm still running 3.4, too!) Josh "Legacy Man" > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy > Systems Administrator @ hub.org > primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message