Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 09:18:00 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> To: "~/.signature" <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: the AMD factor in FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0104220916450.4422-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> In-Reply-To: <200104221833.f3MIXhn18663@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
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On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, ~/.signature wrote: > vincent vocalized, > > > That's all that matters since I can't tell the difference for > > normal day to day operations with Windows between a PII400 and a PIII933. > > I guess I'm not a gamer. > > It's not just gaming. Heavy computational work is my normal > daily routine. With about $5k in funding standing by, we're holding > off for the dual athlon boards with ddr. Cool, hopefully the dual athlon boards with ddr come out soon. > We also just specced out a server/computational platform, and found > we could match $20k of RS/6000 with about $12k of Dell PIII with > 2G of Crucial memory and 3d party *big* drives--We'd have had about > 72 or 144G of storage from ibm/sun, probably just ultrascsi, but > we'll have 300G of Raid 5 u160 with a ready standby drive and a 15krpm > swap drive . . . and about $7,000 left over . . which means that > rather than going $5k over budget, we're enough under budget for > an extra blade 100 or bsd box . . . It's just a pity that the money > rules for this machine require it to be received before June 30 (after > going through University bid/purchase processes), otherwise it > could wait for dual 1.5Ghz palominos, too . . . I guess there are always deadlines which is the bad part... Can't win 'em all... > hawk, who can always use more processing power . . . Couldn't everyone... Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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