Re: PIII 550 or Athlon 950?

[Aernoudt Bottemanne <aernoudt@bottemanne.net>]

At 21:02 2-1-2001 +0100, Henning Brauer wrote:
>Am Dienstag,  2. Januar 2001 22:27 schrieb Tor Roberts:
> > Derek,
> > I know that everyone is pushing the PII, but I would like to put my vote
> > in for the Athlon.
>
>ACK.
>
>For first, it makes no difference for OpenBSD if it runs on an Athlon or an
>PIII.
>I have all newer servers here running on Athlons (Athlon 500 up to Athlon
>TBird 1GHz, even some Durons) on quality mobos (Asus K7M, K7V, A7V) and
>quality RAM (Infineon PC100-222) without any problem. It is not true that the
>intels are more reliable, they are just more expensive.


Exactly. Also, in contrary to what an earlier writer wrote: ECC memory can 
be used with Athlon. I run MSI Pro 2a motherboard with Athlon and ECC 
memory: runs perfect !  (the quality of the RAM is _very_ important)


>The question "buying finished server or building it by your own" is another
>thing. Do you trust their skills more then yours? Then buy a server from
>them. If you trust your own skills more build the system yourself.


True imho.

It's all a matter of taste; just what you like to work with. Currently 
Athlon is the better (faster) system, but in some time Intel will be back 
and they will be in the lead, after some time AMD will take over agin etc 
etc etc.

Cheers,
Aernoudt
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Aernoudt Bottemanne

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