Re: PIII 550 or Athlon 950?

[Henning Brauer <lists@bsws.de>]

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.

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.


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