Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 20:25:48 -0500 From: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> To: "Nathan Vidican" <webmaster@wmptl.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Dual-Athlon vs Dual-PIII ... opinions? Message-ID: <001101c00657$bef061c0$ab7009ce@mark8> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008092239250.54797-100000@thelab.hub.org> <004a01c00334$5b427a80$b4440ace@mark8> <39982435.18498D4F@wmptl.com>
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From: "Nathan Vidican" <webmaster@wmptl.com>
To: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>
Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: Dual-Athlon vs Dual-PIII ... opinions?
> Josh Paetzel wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "The Hermit Hacker" <scrappy@hub.org>
> > To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> > Cc: <freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG>
> > 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"
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> Athlons run a 200mhz FSB, NOT A 133mhz FSB - that'd be your Intel PIII's
> bus speed, and only at certain clock frequencies at that.
Athlons run at 200mhz FSB, but their memory is still running at 133, isn't
it?
Not to mention
> the full-speed cache that the Athlon offers.
Are you saying/implying that the P3 coppermines don't have a full-speed
cache?
I'd bet than an AMD Athlon
> 700mhz CPU running in a similar configuration on an Asus K7M/K7V
> mainboard would out-perform your PIII at 700mhz running on an Asus 440bx
> based board.
>
>
Hmmmm, interesting challenge....I accept. I've got a Gforce2 GTS DDR video
card, 160 megs of PC133 ram, and 7200 rpm IDE disks. My P3 is in fact a
100mghz FSB model, but I find it runs quite stable at 133mghz, which makes
it a 933. (To be honest I usually run the bus at 115mghz cause I can't tell
the difference and I am slightly afraid of cooking it.) Let me know if you
have/can get similar components and we'll run your favorite benchmark
program.
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