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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Server hardware considerations..
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 10:14:46 -0800
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > RAM: 16 meg to start with, maybe 32, There aren't any special
> > considerations I should take when getting the RAM are there?
> 
> Not so long as you get a PCI disk controller, no.

Just to follow-up to myself here.  It just occurred to me that there are
actually more considerations than just this which I really should have
mentioned.  For one thing, if you're going to upgrade to a Pentium at
some point, be sure and buy 72 pin "WIDE" memory so that you can
preserve your memory investment.  Also, if you're going to use a 100 or
133Mhz part, be sure and get *60 nanosecond* memory!  This causes
confusion for some people since the 90/120 Mhz parts will function just
fine with 70ns memory, the reason being that those parts clock memory at
60Mhz rather than 66Mhz.  That's another reason that a 100Mhz Pentium
can often out-perform a 120Mhz one in benchmarks - what you gain in
higher *processor* clock speed you can lose again in the slower *memory*
clock speed.

Just doing my bit to try and curb the spread of misinformation,
especially when it's my own! :-)

-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project