Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 15:45:04 -0500 (CDT) From: Craig Johnston <craig@gnofn.org> To: dkelly@hiwaay.net Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Non-Intels Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970719145940.16344A-100000@sparkie.gnofn.org> In-Reply-To: <199707180022.TAA07175@nexgen.hiwaay.net>
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On Thu, 17 Jul 1997 dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote: > > I'd like to see AMD succeed. Maybe I'll upgrade this thing in a couple of > months to a K6 if the problems are solved. In the next couple of weeks I'll > be needing several systems for work, were downtime costs much more than at > home. Pentium 133's are looking attractive. > Ack. Go for a K5. I build FreeBSD boxes with them exclusively, they work like champs. A K5-PR166 is about $100 now. It will be noticeably faster than an iP133. I put 'em on the Asus HX board. Great price/performance and never any noted instability, at ~= $250 for the combo. That's for work systems.. for fun I run a K5-PR166 at home on the ABIT IT5H jumperless HX board with a bus speed of 83Mhz and a CPU multiplier of 1.5 rather than the 66Mhz/1.75 standard bus speed/multiplier combo. Even with the 83Mhz bus, the system makes world over and over and stays up until the power goes out or I want a new kernel. It's also real fast -- I'd love to benchmark it vs. an iP200. -Craig
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