47 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-stableRe: AMD K6-2 / 550| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Larry Rosenman | Jun 27, 2000 8:11 pm | |
| John Baldwin | Jun 28, 2000 10:13 pm | |
| Greg Work | Jul 1, 2000 3:53 pm | |
| Larry Rosenman | Jul 1, 2000 6:49 pm | |
| Greg Lehey | Jul 1, 2000 7:14 pm | |
| Greg Work | Jul 1, 2000 7:17 pm | |
| Larry Rosenman | Jul 1, 2000 7:21 pm | |
| Greg Work | Jul 1, 2000 7:22 pm | |
| Greg Lehey | Jul 1, 2000 7:31 pm | |
| Greg Lehey | Jul 1, 2000 7:33 pm | |
| Greg Lehey | Jul 1, 2000 7:35 pm | |
| Larry Rosenman | Jul 1, 2000 7:37 pm | |
| Greg Lehey | Jul 1, 2000 7:53 pm | |
| Larry Rosenman | Jul 1, 2000 8:06 pm | |
| Bryan Liesner | Jul 1, 2000 8:21 pm | |
| Larry Rosenman | Jul 1, 2000 8:40 pm | |
| Greg Lehey | Jul 1, 2000 8:50 pm | |
| Larry Rosenman | Jul 1, 2000 8:56 pm | |
| Larry Rosenman | Jul 1, 2000 9:16 pm | |
| Art Neilson, WH7N | Jul 1, 2000 11:05 pm | |
| Coleman Kane | Jul 1, 2000 11:19 pm | |
| Greg Lehey | Jul 2, 2000 12:36 am | |
| David Heller | Jul 2, 2000 11:49 am | |
| Steve O'Hara-Smith | Jul 3, 2000 1:54 am | |
| Greg Work | Jul 3, 2000 5:42 am | |
| Greg Work | Jul 3, 2000 5:44 am | |
| Jim King | Jul 3, 2000 9:19 am | |
| Raymond A. Wiker | Jul 3, 2000 11:02 am | |
| Steve O'Hara-Smith | Jul 4, 2000 12:26 am | |
| Jordan K. Hubbard | Jul 4, 2000 1:15 pm | |
| Larry Rosenman | Jul 4, 2000 1:20 pm | |
| Linh Pham | Jul 4, 2000 1:39 pm | |
| Joe Greco | Jul 4, 2000 7:29 pm | |
| Paul Murphy | Jul 4, 2000 7:46 pm | |
| Greg Lehey | Jul 4, 2000 8:51 pm | |
| Joe Greco | Jul 4, 2000 9:35 pm | |
| Coleman Kane | Jul 4, 2000 10:05 pm | |
| Ataualpa Albert Carmo Braga | Jul 4, 2000 11:51 pm | |
| Mike Harding | Jul 5, 2000 5:37 am | |
| Brandon D. Valentine | Jul 5, 2000 7:21 am | |
| Coleman Kane | Jul 5, 2000 8:16 am | |
| Wilko Bulte | Jul 5, 2000 1:12 pm | |
| Jeffrey J. Mountin | Jul 5, 2000 6:33 pm | |
| Coleman Kane | Jul 6, 2000 8:37 am | |
| Stefan Esser | Jul 8, 2000 1:54 pm | |
| Joe Greco | Jul 8, 2000 3:00 pm | |
| B. K. Minazzi | Jul 9, 2000 7:53 am |
| Subject: | Re: AMD K6-2 / 550 | |
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| From: | Greg Lehey (gr...@lemis.com) | |
| Date: | Jul 4, 2000 8:51:35 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-stable | |
On Tuesday, 4 July 2000 at 22:46:47 -0400, Paul Murphy wrote:
Joe Greco wrote:
Ditto. I'm slowly but surely dumping all my Intel Pentium stuff, plus most of my 486 or older stuff :-) I've been using the ASUS P/I-P55T2P4, the venerable Triton II overclocker's board, which I've got a plethora of, and some P5A's. My baseline systems are now K6/233's, ranging up to K6-III-400's (which still seem to be faster than their K6-2 higher speed counterparts). Only using Intel for the SMP stuff now. And on my laptop
Is there a particular reason for going with the AMD's over Intel? When buying computers I have always stayed with the Intel CPU's because I thought it was similar to Soundblaster vs. others: all the others say they are "Soundblaster compatible" so why not buy the real thing?
An obvious reason is the bang to buck ratio. AMD CPUs are cheaper for a given performance, often very much so.
I note also an article in c't issue 13/2000, which suggests that Intel is currently in big trouble delivering high-performance processor hardware, whereas AMD seems to be doing pretty well.
Greg
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