Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:03:00 +0000 From: rob_spellberg <emailrob@emailrob.com> To: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: what's the difference between the pentium-4 and the celeron-d? Message-ID: <440330C4.7020407@emailrob.com>
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greetings, all --- before i start downloading a ton of intel docs on the p4 and the cd, i am hoping someone can give me short answers to two questions: a] what is the fundamental difference between them [ e. g., is the cd missing some major subsystem of the p4 ]? [ i am aware of the cpu clock speed differences and that the cd has a slower fsb. ] b] are there any particular docs that i should get [ intel and others ] with which i can rtfm to my heart's content or, at least, until i fall asleep? some background. ---------------- until about ten years ago, i was fairly well-versed on motorola's 6800 and 68000 lines. i stopped paying attention to intel's lines after the 8086 [ i have always considered segments to be a marketing hack that got in the way ]. the only line with which i remain reasonably knowledgeable is the 68908 family. my apps. -------- i am currently running two boxes with fbsd_4.10 on p3/800mhz. i am about to acquire the parts for 4 to 6 boxes to replace these. all will get fbsd_6.x. one will have x installed to serve as my front-end. one will be dedicated to postgres. the remainder are tbd, but i want to experiment with different structures of firewall. i am pretty much settled on intel's 945g chipset, which has everything on board. with two specific exceptions [ a box built around an ati aiw_9600 to replace my vcrs [ needs a tbd mobo with an agp slot [ 865pe ] and a fast p4 ], a box for streaming audio from non-local radio stations ], i tend to be text-oriented and integer-oriented. because my apps tend to be undemanding, i think in terms of simple, inexpensive boxes for dedicated purposes, rather than trying to make one box do everything. i have yet to need more than one cpu/mobo. i am thinking of getting several different combinations so that i can benchmark some memory-intensive test code on each. sorry to go on at this length; i wanted to be thorough, but i'm sure i forgot something. thanks in advance. please cc me as i am not subscribed to this list. rob spellberg woodstock, illinois
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