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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Austria.EU.net!newsfeed.ACO.net!CARNet.hr!tjev.tel.fer.hr!zec From: zec@tel.etf.hr (Marko Zec) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: AMD 5x86 recommendations? Date: 14 Mar 1996 12:44:26 GMT Organization: Zavod za telekomunikacije - ETF Zagreb Lines: 25 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4i94ba$gpq@bagan.srce.hr> References: <rrwood-1103961728540001@bpci.net3.io.org> <Pine.LNX.3.91.960313193334.32655B-100000@gallup.cia-g.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tjev.tel.etf.hr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Stephen Fisher (lithium@cia-g.com) wrote: : I have this. : AMD 586/486 133mhz/P75 (quad clocked to 133) : From what I can tell it is very slow. I just did a kernel compile on it : (default drivers - test run) with an Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller and 16MB : of ram) and it took 2 hours and 31 minutes. Sheesh, reminds me of my : days with Linux compiling a kernel in 8 hours (On a 386) :> : Doing the same (with IDE drives though..) on a 486DX4/100 with 16meg of : ram took me about 30 minutes. I have this: AMD586ADW/160 overclocked on SYS 496/7 MB, 2*WD Caviar IDE, and 8MB RAM only. Kernel (we are talking about FreeBSD, aren't we? :) compiles in just 10 minutes. Works rock-solid & stable & fast. For ~160 DM, that is the price for the chip here in Croatia, it's by far the best price/performace you can get on the market today. : Time to go grab an ASUS MB and true Pentium:] Time to tune your SCSI I would say... :) Zec