Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 15:11:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: anthony@sohopros.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: motherboard advice? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980413150932.5663H-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980412163645.00951180@pop.flash.net>
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On Sun, 12 Apr 1998 anthony@sohopros.com wrote: > I am going to purchase a new motherboard and CPU in a > week or so and would like advice on the two I have > chosen. > > CPU > 1. Intel Pentium 166 > $178.00 > 2. Cyrix M2-233 MMX > $177.00 > > Motherboard > PC Wave M575 Motherbaord, TX-PRO Chipset. > > This price includes board, CPU and fan. > > Does FreeBSD support Cyrix architecture? Yes. Make sure you run something very current some some early releases in the 2.2x series didn't support the M2. > If so, and the two board are the identical except for the > processor wouldn't I want the faster processor? The Cyrix processors generally have slower floating-point units as compared to Intel processors, so that may cancel any gain you get with the faster clock cycle. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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