Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 09:32:55 +0100 From: "Ian Vaudrey" <ivaudrey@test.nemko.ltd.uk> To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <sysop@mixcom.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <mjanosi@numacorp.com> Subject: Re: What to buy? Message-ID: <199705030836.JAA10438@mail.nemko.ltd.uk>
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> From: Jeffrey J. Mountin <sysop@mixcom.com> > To: Ian Vaudrey <ivaudrey@test.nemko.ltd.uk> > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; mjanosi@numacorp.com > Subject: Re: What to buy? > Date: 03 May 1997 05:36 > > At 12:38 PM 5/2/97 +0100, Ian Vaudrey wrote: > >> Cyrix 6x6 +200 motherboard > > > >The Cyrix processors are reputedly very quick, with the exception of a > >lousy floating point unit. What would worry me is the power > >requirements, at around twice that of the nearest equivalent Intel > >part. This means more stress on the power supply and motherboard, and > >for that matter the higher ambient temperature in your box might not > >exactly be welcome news to your other components. > > Not just floating point, which they really lag behind Intel on, but normal > numeric processing, they are somewhat slower. One reason why I won't touch > them. > > >AFAIK, motherboards supporting the 75MHz clock required by the > >Cx686-200 are still pretty thin on the ground. At least one MB that > >does support this seems to have reliability problems of it's own - > >check out the Supermicro newsgroup if you have news access. > > Hmmm... does this mean they can be set to 2.5 bus speed now? No, the -200 suffix is just a 'performance indicator', it really clocks at 150MHz (2x 75MHz). > > --snip-- > >> 16x CD-ROM IDE (Mitsumi?) > > > >Again, there have been several reports on this list of problems with > >IDE CDROMs. I'd go for SCSI. You'd probably get much the same > >throughput from a decent 8x SCSI drive as from a 16x IDE unit in any > >case. > > A 16X Toshiba SCSI can be had for just under $200, but I don't see why one > would need such speed. "Wow! You can install fast!" and playing CDROM > games, but that's 95. > Absolutely no disagreement here! <snip> > > ------------------------------------------- > Jeff Mountin - System/Network Administrator > jeff@mixcom.net > > MIX Communications > Serving the Internet since 1990 - Ian
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