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: | Coleman Kane (cok...@one.net) | |
| Date: | Jul 5, 2000 8:16:07 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-stable | |
Yeah, I was simply referring to the k6-2 line. Of course the Athlon is better in performance and price. The guys at AMD ar no dummies, they know how to build a processor. The K7 team was made up of a good deal of Ex-digital engineers (no doubt disgruntled at Intel). I have been a rather loyal AMD customer for years, ever since I realized that my X5-133 could clock to 160Mhz with no problem and beat the socks off of a friend's P-120... I also had an AMD Am486DX2-66 that performed well in both Integer and FPU situations. I had a short run with an Intel P55C-166Mhz during the time when AMD's K5s were in short supply. The K6-2 was a godsend.
Ataualpa Albert Carmo Braga had the audacity to say:
Only more one information about performance. I works at Unicamp university (Brazil), with computational chemistry, and a professor make some real tests (energy and optimize calculations, for example) and got better results for a AMD 700 (Athlon) than with a Pentium 3 850. Than, I think so, the Intel's imperium maybe is close to the end.
Ata.
on Wednesday, 5 Jul 2000 01:05:51, Coleman Kane wrote:
Paul Murphy had the audacity to say:
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
The cpu's are a little different. The difference being that the Cyrstal 4324 is definately not anywhere near as good quality as a Sounblaster AWE32. The AMD chips, for the price are better performers than the Intel CPUs. You also don't want to compare speed for speed performance, try upgradeability and price comparisons. Maybe a K6-2 266 is almost as fast as a P55C-233MMZ for non-optimized FPU math, the P55C is about 2x the price in cost. If you buy a K6-2 400 (still cheaper than a P55C 233 and even a PII-300, yet kick both asses) you are getting better performance for a cheaper price. If you compare the PII-400 vs. the K6-2 400, of course the PII-400 will win, but they are about $130. The K6-2 400 is only $40-$50 and dropping. Just wait until you can get a nice Socket A board for your server with an early Duron 600 for $70 for the CPU and $100 for the mobo. Beat that with intel chips? I don't think so. On top of that, the Duron's will be SMP-able in the near future with the AMD770.
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?
[forgive me if this sounds naive but it has been a while since I have bought a NEW computer]
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