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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!nntp.crl.com!news1.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Seeking advice on new system purchase Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 21:21:19 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 34 Message-ID: <32BE16CF.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <59dhb9$p6g@shellx.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: Tony Porczyk <tporczyk@best.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32886 Tony Porczyk wrote: > 1. What is the perceived speedup between regular Pentium (say, 166 which > I'm using now) and PPro (180 or 200)? Is it worth the extra > expense? "That depends" ;-) For some tasks, it might not be worth the extra money (or you might have performance bottlenecks elsewhere in your system which make the extra CPU performance less tangible). In other situations, or for a carefully tuned system, the performance might be more noticible. I like my PP/200 just fine, but then I always have to have the fastest of everything. :-) > 2. I have read good reviews of the latest Diamond 3D 3000 (VRAM) card. > Since the new release of FreeBSD includes v.3.2 of XFree86, I've > checked the docs but didn't see a specific mention of that card. Me neither, though you might want to ask the XFree86 folks before you make your decision. See http://www.xfree86.org > 3. Within a foreseable future I would like to add a SCSI tape and > perhaps even a writeable CDROM (primarily for use with another OS). > Would Adaptec 3940 be appropriate for such a task? (to split the I think that would be overkill. :) A single 2940 should do fine for what you're trying to do. > 5. For the type of use I have described, does it make much of a > difference to go to UW for SCSI? This might be something you do more for future expansion. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project