[rescue] Indy question

[Brian Harrington]

--On Wednesday, February 20, 2002 12:22 AM -0500 Julius Sridhar
<vance at ikickass.org> wrote:

>> i'm thinking about picking an indy up on ebay for cheap.  what CPU do i
>> want it to have?  what are the options?  what are the pros and cons for
>> each cpu?  what is the fastest one?
> 
> The options in order of preference with the best first are, R5000, R4400,
> R4600.  Stay away from the R4600 if at all possible.

Nope.  Stay away from the R4600PC.  The R4600SC has a cache and actually
gives you equivalent integer performance to the faster R4400s while running
much cooler.  We're talking about a nice little chip that's gotten a bad
rap because of a lousy system design.  (Q:  What's an Indy?  A: An Indigo
without the go. :-).

                          -- Brian


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Brian Harrington
Milton S. Eisenhower Library
The Johns Hopkins University
brian at sigh.mse.jhu.edu