From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 19 8:40:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan2.tdx.co.uk [62.13.128.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75BAF37B401 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 08:40:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from geko (nodnsyet.dmpriest.net.uk [62.13.128.68] (may be forged)) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.11.4/8.11.4/Kp) with ESMTP id f9IAieZ49758; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:44:40 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 16:40:14 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz To: what ever Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pentium-4 v. pentium-3 Message-ID: <7147317.1003509614@geko> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.0 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 19 October 2001 15:12 +0000 what ever wrote, > Hi, > > So, it's time to upgrade to a new machine (I'm still using an old P2-266), > and I'm trying to decide between a Pentium-3 & a Pentium-4. This machine > will run FreeBSD only, and will serve as a workstation/router/low-traffic > webserver/samba fileserver. I don't need a 2gig processor or > anything...(my p2-266 is idle most of the time anyway). Erm, so why upgrade? - I have a number of IBM 'Blue Lightning' (486-in-a-386 like package) machines around here (running things like Samba, firewalls, low-volume sendmail, ftp etc.), and they're mostly idle, thus no point in upgrading that I can see :) -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message