Re: AMD vs Intel
Am Samstag, 24. April 2004 03:51 schrieb Marc G. Fournier: I'm looking at picking up the following: Intel Technology Server Chassis Intel SC1300 1U Rack MainBoard: Intel SE7501WV2SCSI Ram memory: 4 x 1 GB Processor: 2 x Xeon 3.06 Ghz Discos Duros: 3x Seagate ST336607KLC Intel: SRCZR CD-ROM: 52x Floppy: 3.5 Monitor, Mouse Keyboard: Not Included Now, I've been hearing alot of how AMD tends to perform better, but I have zero experience with AMD ... I'm curious as to what those with experience with AMD would be considered: 1. equivalent in power to the Xeon 3.06Ghz 2. a rackmount/motherboard they would recommend for a server I just can tell you that AMD has proofen their reliability in a lot of server environments of my friends and since everything after coppermine/tualatin/M/dothan... INTELs do consume at least the same power and with the northwood core much more power than performance equivalent AMDs. So in my opinion these are all ineligible for servers but that's another story. I'd take the AMD and reinvest the saved money in very good coolers And of corse there is the bright new 64-bit world.. No long-term behaviour nor productive environment experiences but I only hear positive stories... -Harry Thanks ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please never add my reply address to CC nor to the recipient list! If you make answers to all please remove my address! I'll complain if I see my reply address on any mailinglist pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: AMD vs Intel
Hey Marc: Five of the six computers in my home office / conservatory are AMD's. They do run a little hotter than Intel, but they are cheaper to buy, and I'm a certified cheap-skate. Now the question Why do I have sooo many computers? I just do. On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 18:51, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I'm looking at picking up the following: Intel Technology Server Chassis Intel SC1300 1U Rack MainBoard: Intel SE7501WV2SCSI Ram memory: 4 x 1 GB Processor: 2 x Xeon 3.06 Ghz Discos Duros: 3x Seagate ST336607KLC Intel: SRCZR CD-ROM: 52x Floppy: 3.5 Monitor, Mouse Keyboard: Not Included Now, I've been hearing alot of how AMD tends to perform better, but I have zero experience with AMD ... I'm curious as to what those with experience with AMD would be considered: 1. equivalent in power to the Xeon 3.06Ghz 2. a rackmount/motherboard they would recommend for a server Thanks ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AMD vs Intel
I'm looking at picking up the following: Intel Technology Server Chassis Intel SC1300 1U Rack MainBoard: Intel SE7501WV2SCSI Ram memory: 4 x 1 GB Processor: 2 x Xeon 3.06 Ghz Discos Duros: 3x Seagate ST336607KLC Intel: SRCZR CD-ROM: 52x Floppy: 3.5 Monitor, Mouse Keyboard: Not Included Now, I've been hearing alot of how AMD tends to perform better, but I have zero experience with AMD ... I'm curious as to what those with experience with AMD would be considered: 1. equivalent in power to the Xeon 3.06Ghz 2. a rackmount/motherboard they would recommend for a server Thanks ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD vs Intel ...
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Server environment, Dual Processor ... web/mail/ftp generally ... all our current servers are Intel based, but looking at the costs, the AMD are so much cheaper, just figured for next one I'd check out what AMD had to offer as comparable ... Just trying to do some comparison shopping ... :) Marc, Although nothing I have ever worked with comes even remotely close to what you are going to torture this new machine with I wanted to throw in my $0.02.. and mostly subjective testing at that I had been using nothing but AMD for a few years. Recently I bought a few machines from a local vendor and they are an Intel shop. These machines have faster CPUs that most of my other AMD machines yet felt less responsive with FreeBSD. I think that the entire subsystem should be taken into consideration: chipset, ECC memory, memory speed, disk subsystem, etc.. Just so you get a feeling for what I am talking about... Most of my AMD machines FreeBSD/Windows were 500Mhz to 1Ghz. The two Intel I bought for 2 clients were 2+Ghz Intel Pentium 4. Although I have not done custom kernels for those machines I find it interesting that they would Feel slower than machines that are half as fast. I can only guess that something in the subsystems of these new machines is slower than in the AMD machines. Given your environment I think 2+ CPUs with ECC and a good disk subsystem would be good. Raid 1+0 makes a huge difference in performance (at least in my testing). Perhaps you could do your DB 1+0 and everything else Raid 5 (which is what I think you have). Hope things work out with this new machine.. who knows I may end up having a VM in it someday. :-) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD vs Intel ...
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Francisco wrote: Hope things work out with this new machine.. who knows I may end up having a VM in it someday. :-) actually, you'd be one ofthe first moved over to it :) Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD vs Intel ...
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Francisco wrote: Hope things work out with this new machine.. who knows I may end up having a VM in it someday. :-) actually, you'd be one ofthe first moved over to it :) Something I have always wondered.. When you move to a machine or install a new VM do you keep the /etc/newsyslog.conf file? I have added some lines there. Should I back it up? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD vs Intel ...
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Francisco Reyes wrote: On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Francisco wrote: Hope things work out with this new machine.. who knows I may end up having a VM in it someday. :-) actually, you'd be one ofthe first moved over to it :) Something I have always wondered.. When you move to a machine or install a new VM do you keep the /etc/newsyslog.conf file? I have added some lines there. Should I back it up? Any config files that you happen to modify in the VM itself is backed up/moved to the new server ... simple rsync of your root directory down Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD vs Intel ...
Marc Wiz wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 01:53:38PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: OK. The price difference for AMD vs. Intel is pretty significant, but be aware that you'll also pay a significant premium for dual-proc hardware versus single-proc machines: compare an AMD 2400MP versus the 2400XP price, or the 2.4GHz Xeon P4 vs. a Northwood P4, and then factor in the additional costs for a MP-capable motherboard. Try about $159 for a dual processor motherboard from Tyan. I just bought a S2466 for about that much brand new. You can get a decent single-proc AMD motherboard for about $55 (Shuttle AK39N w/ VIA KT400 + VT8235, onboard LAN and audio), which is one third the cost of your dual-proc MB, although obviously one can spend more on either type. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD vs Intel ...
On Feb 10, 2004, at 12:58 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Just a note: If you want ECC with an AMD Athlon (not AMD64), you need to buy a dual board anyway, since I don't know of anyone who makes a board with a chipset that supports ECC that isn't a dual. Hi, Chad-- I've got a Shuttle AK31v3 motherboard which does registered+ECC memory, which is a single-proc motherboard: System Mainboard Manufacturer : HOLCO (Shuttle) MP Support : No Model : VT8366-8233 BIOS ID : 04/17/2002-VT8366-8233-6A6LVH2CC-00 Chipset : VIA KT266/A Chipset [ ... ] Logical/Chipset Memory Banks Bank 0 Setting : 128MB DDR-SDRAM Registered 8-1-1-1R 4-1-1-1W 2.5-3-3CL 1CMD Bank 1 Setting : 128MB DDR-SDRAM Registered 8-1-1-1R 4-1-1-1W 2.5-3-3CL 1CMD Bank 2 Setting : 256MB DDR-SDRAM Registered 8-1-1-1R 4-1-1-1W 2.5-3-3CL 1CMD Speed : 2x 133MHz (266MHz data rate) Multiplier : 1/1x Memory Modules Memory Module 1 : Micron 18VDDT3272DG-265Z1 080EBD07 256MB 18x(16Mx8) ECC DDR-SDRAM PC2100R-2533-750 (CL2.5 upto 133MHz) (CL2 upto 100MHz) Memory Module 2 : Micron 9VDDT3272G-265B2 1B1B108E 256MB 9x(32Mx8) ECC DDR-SDRAM PC2100R-2533-750 (CL2.5 upto 133MHz) (CL2 upto 100MHz) ...but you are right that ECC support is quite uncommon for AMD motherboards. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD vs Intel ...
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 10:58:34AM -0700, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Feb 10, 2004, at 5:25 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Marc Wiz wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 01:53:38PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: OK. The price difference for AMD vs. Intel is pretty significant, but be aware that you'll also pay a significant premium for dual-proc hardware versus single-proc machines: compare an AMD 2400MP versus the 2400XP price, or the 2.4GHz Xeon P4 vs. a Northwood P4, and then factor in the additional costs for a MP-capable motherboard. Try about $159 for a dual processor motherboard from Tyan. I just bought a S2466 for about that much brand new. You can get a decent single-proc AMD motherboard for about $55 (Shuttle AK39N w/ VIA KT400 + VT8235, onboard LAN and audio), which is one third the cost of your dual-proc MB, although obviously one can spend more on either type. Just a note: If you want ECC with an AMD Athlon (not AMD64), you need to buy a dual board anyway, since I don't know of anyone who makes a board with a chipset that supports ECC that isn't a dual. That's exactly why I bought that board. I already had ECC memory. Marc -- Marc Wiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, that really is my last name. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD vs Intel ...
Quoting Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Feb 10, 2004, at 5:25 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Marc Wiz wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 01:53:38PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: OK. The price difference for AMD vs. Intel is pretty significant, but be aware that you'll also pay a significant premium for dual-proc hardware versus single-proc machines: compare an AMD 2400MP versus the 2400XP price, or the 2.4GHz Xeon P4 vs. a Northwood P4, and then factor in the additional costs for a MP-capable motherboard. Try about $159 for a dual processor motherboard from Tyan. I just bought a S2466 for about that much brand new. You can get a decent single-proc AMD motherboard for about $55 (Shuttle AK39N w/ VIA KT400 + VT8235, onboard LAN and audio), which is one third the cost of your dual-proc MB, although obviously one can spend more on either type. Just a note: If you want ECC with an AMD Athlon (not AMD64), you need to buy a dual board anyway, since I don't know of anyone who makes a board with a chipset that supports ECC that isn't a dual. Unless you buy one of the single processor athlon 64/opteron boards and get an opteron/athlon 64 fx chip. Ken ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD vs Intel ...
On Feb 10, 2004, at 11:24 AM, Kenneth Culver wrote: Quoting Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Feb 10, 2004, at 5:25 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Marc Wiz wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 01:53:38PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: OK. The price difference for AMD vs. Intel is pretty significant, but be aware that you'll also pay a significant premium for dual-proc hardware versus single-proc machines: compare an AMD 2400MP versus the 2400XP price, or the 2.4GHz Xeon P4 vs. a Northwood P4, and then factor in the additional costs for a MP-capable motherboard. Try about $159 for a dual processor motherboard from Tyan. I just bought a S2466 for about that much brand new. You can get a decent single-proc AMD motherboard for about $55 (Shuttle AK39N w/ VIA KT400 + VT8235, onboard LAN and audio), which is one third the cost of your dual-proc MB, although obviously one can spend more on either type. Just a note: If you want ECC with an AMD Athlon (not AMD64), you need to buy a dual board anyway, since I don't know of anyone who makes a board with a chipset that supports ECC that isn't a dual. Unless you buy one of the single processor athlon 64/opteron boards and get an opteron/athlon 64 fx chip. Which is why I said (not AMD64) Chad ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD vs Intel ...
Quoting Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Feb 10, 2004, at 11:24 AM, Kenneth Culver wrote: Quoting Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Feb 10, 2004, at 5:25 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Marc Wiz wrote: On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 01:53:38PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: OK. The price difference for AMD vs. Intel is pretty significant, but be aware that you'll also pay a significant premium for dual-proc hardware versus single-proc machines: compare an AMD 2400MP versus the 2400XP price, or the 2.4GHz Xeon P4 vs. a Northwood P4, and then factor in the additional costs for a MP-capable motherboard. Try about $159 for a dual processor motherboard from Tyan. I just bought a S2466 for about that much brand new. You can get a decent single-proc AMD motherboard for about $55 (Shuttle AK39N w/ VIA KT400 + VT8235, onboard LAN and audio), which is one third the cost of your dual-proc MB, although obviously one can spend more on either type. Just a note: If you want ECC with an AMD Athlon (not AMD64), you need to buy a dual board anyway, since I don't know of anyone who makes a board with a chipset that supports ECC that isn't a dual. Unless you buy one of the single processor athlon 64/opteron boards and get an opteron/athlon 64 fx chip. Which is why I said (not AMD64) yeah, I saw that right after I responded :-P Ken ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD vs Intel ...
On Feb 10, 2004, at 11:13 AM, Charles Swiger wrote: On Feb 10, 2004, at 12:58 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Just a note: If you want ECC with an AMD Athlon (not AMD64), you need to buy a dual board anyway, since I don't know of anyone who makes a board with a chipset that supports ECC that isn't a dual. Hi, Chad-- I've got a Shuttle AK31v3 motherboard which does registered+ECC memory, which is a single-proc motherboard: System Mainboard Manufacturer : HOLCO (Shuttle) MP Support : No Model : VT8366-8233 BIOS ID : 04/17/2002-VT8366-8233-6A6LVH2CC-00 Chipset : VIA KT266/A Chipset Hmm, that must have been a KT266A (versus KT266) feature. Anyone know of any current AMD Athlon motherboards with chipsets that support ECC that are not dual MB? The KT266A is an older chipset. The AMD 760 series of chipsets support ECC but you only find these in dual motherboards usually. I have the Gigabyte dual and it seems to work great with the Gentoo Linux installed on it (needed it for some specialized Java stuff) and I also have some Tyan Tiger MP (not MPX) and they run great with FreeBSD. Thanks Chad ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AMD vs Intel ...
G'day all ... Simple question, I would hope ... I want to spec out a new server, and want to compare AMD vs Intel ... is there anything online that gives approx equivalents? ie. a Xeon 2.4Ghz processor would be approx equivalent to an AMD ... ?? Thanks ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD vs Intel ...
On Feb 9, 2004, at 11:16 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: G'day all ... Simple question, I would hope ... I want to spec out a new server, and want to compare AMD vs Intel ... is there anything online that gives approx equivalents? ie. a Xeon 2.4Ghz processor would be approx equivalent to an AMD ... ?? I know you're not a troll, Marc, but this question is much like asking whether emacs or vi makes a better editor. :-) An Intel Xeon 2.4GHz CPU approximately resembles an AMD 2400MP CPU in terms of capabilities and performance. By this I mean they get very similar scores from www.spec.org's spec2000int: Epox 8KHA+, AMD Athlon XP 2400+: 782 Dell PowerEdge 2650 (2.4 GHz Xeon): 792 ...although the spec2000fp numbers are 641 vs. 726, so the Xeon does better at floating point. For that particular test, anyway. Do you require SMP capabilities? What are you trying to do with this machine? -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD vs Intel ...
Quoting Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Feb 9, 2004, at 11:16 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: G'day all ... Simple question, I would hope ... I want to spec out a new server, and want to compare AMD vs Intel ... is there anything online that gives approx equivalents? ie. a Xeon 2.4Ghz processor would be approx equivalent to an AMD ... ?? I know you're not a troll, Marc, but this question is much like asking whether emacs or vi makes a better editor. :-) An Intel Xeon 2.4GHz CPU approximately resembles an AMD 2400MP CPU in terms of capabilities and performance. By this I mean they get very similar scores from www.spec.org's spec2000int: Epox 8KHA+, AMD Athlon XP 2400+: 782 Dell PowerEdge 2650 (2.4 GHz Xeon): 792 ...although the spec2000fp numbers are 641 vs. 726, so the Xeon does better at floating point. For that particular test, anyway. Do you require SMP capabilities? What are you trying to do with this machine? If I remember correctly though, the fp numbers are for SSE on the Xeon, and not the regular old FPU, p4 based machines are horrible when it comes to non-SSE/SSE2 type stuff. Ken ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD vs Intel ...
On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Charles Swiger wrote: On Feb 9, 2004, at 11:16 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: G'day all ... Simple question, I would hope ... I want to spec out a new server, and want to compare AMD vs Intel ... is there anything online that gives approx equivalents? ie. a Xeon 2.4Ghz processor would be approx equivalent to an AMD ... ?? I know you're not a troll, Marc, but this question is much like asking whether emacs or vi makes a better editor. :-) Actually, I wasn't asking which one was better though :) I'm only curious as to how I can compare the two ... its kinda like Sun vs Intel ... I know that the Sun should usually outperform Intel on fp, but Intel tends to do a pretty good job against Sun on int operations ... An Intel Xeon 2.4GHz CPU approximately resembles an AMD 2400MP CPU in terms of capabilities and performance. By this I mean they get very similar scores from www.spec.org's spec2000int: Epox 8KHA+, AMD Athlon XP 2400+: 782 Dell PowerEdge 2650 (2.4 GHz Xeon): 792 ...although the spec2000fp numbers are 641 vs. 726, so the Xeon does better at floating point. For that particular test, anyway. Do you require SMP capabilities? What are you trying to do with this machine? Server environment, Dual Processor ... web/mail/ftp generally ... all our current servers are Intel based, but looking at the costs, the AMD are so much cheaper, just figured for next one I'd check out what AMD had to offer as comparable ... Just trying to do some comparison shopping ... :) Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD vs Intel ...
On Feb 9, 2004, at 1:20 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Charles Swiger wrote: I know you're not a troll, Marc, but this question is much like asking whether emacs or vi makes a better editor. :-) Actually, I wasn't asking which one was better though :) I'm only curious as to how I can compare the two ... its kinda like Sun vs Intel ... I know that the Sun should usually outperform Intel on fp, but Intel tends to do a pretty good job against Sun on int operations ... I'd tend to agree, and Kenneth also, it seems-- the raw FP performance of the P4s is kinda pokey compared to their int performance. But whether that matters depends on what tasks you're doing. ...although the spec2000fp numbers are 641 vs. 726, so the Xeon does better at floating point. For that particular test, anyway. Do you require SMP capabilities? What are you trying to do with this machine? Server environment, Dual Processor ... web/mail/ftp generally ... all our current servers are Intel based, but looking at the costs, the AMD are so much cheaper, just figured for next one I'd check out what AMD had to offer as comparable ... Just trying to do some comparison shopping ... :) OK. The price difference for AMD vs. Intel is pretty significant, but be aware that you'll also pay a significant premium for dual-proc hardware versus single-proc machines: compare an AMD 2400MP versus the 2400XP price, or the 2.4GHz Xeon P4 vs. a Northwood P4, and then factor in the additional costs for a MP-capable motherboard. Are your machines especially busy, ie CPU-bound? Two 2.4GHz processors is a lot of computing horsepower, although dynamic web content generation or virus scanning can be resource intensive if there's enough traffic... -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AMD vs Intel ...
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 01:53:38PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: OK. The price difference for AMD vs. Intel is pretty significant, but be aware that you'll also pay a significant premium for dual-proc hardware versus single-proc machines: compare an AMD 2400MP versus the 2400XP price, or the 2.4GHz Xeon P4 vs. a Northwood P4, and then factor in the additional costs for a MP-capable motherboard. Try about $159 for a dual processor motherboard from Tyan. I just bought a S2466 for about that much brand new. Marc -- Marc Wiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, that really is my last name. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
