[geeks] Phenom (was Holy Cow! OpenSolaris on a retail laptop?!?!?!?!)

[Shannon Hendrix]

On Dec 19, 2008, at 12:27 , nate at portents.com wrote:

>>   As a side note, anyone ever monkey with the AMD Phenom 9100e CPUs  
>> (4x
>>   core at 1.8 GHz)?
>
> Phenoms models which aren't a xx50 series means it's a pre-B3 stepping
> (i.e. has the TLB erratum, which is typically worked-around in the  
> BIOS by
> disabling the TLB, lowering performance).  I'd recommend avoiding  
> any xx00
> Phenoms.  A Phenom 9150e is at least 10% faster than a 9100e because  
> it is
> a B3 stepping without the TLB design flaw.
>
> The rest of the specs you list for the price are 'eh'.  (Personally  
> I'd
> always rather build a PC with exactly the parts I want, which comes  
> out to
> about the same price, but that's me.)

Doing the math from newegg prices, I get a higher price for DIY.

I would still prefer to do my own, but I wonder how you arrive at a  
cheaper price than $400?


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