Re: PIII 550 or Athlon 950?

["David S." <dgjs@acm.org>]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 08:07:29AM -0800, Derek Sivers wrote:
> 
> I'd save $2000.  I'd have an Athlon 950 instead of a PIII 550.  And I could 
> ask an expert OpenBSD person to advice/help optimize the original setup.
> 
> Does OpenBSD work better with PIII 550 than Athlon 950?   Would there be a 
> big performance difference?
> 
> What would YOU choose?
> (if you don't mind taking 1 wee second to reply...)
> 

If you're considering the Athlon Thunderbird - the "Socket A" chip -
as far as I know none or the motherboards for that chip can use ECC
memory.  That's something to think about if these machines are going
to be servers.

David S.
dgja@acm.org