From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Jun 30 18:06:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA18473 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 18:06:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from electric.tbe.net (electric.tbe.net [207.99.115.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA18379 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 18:06:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gary@tbe.net) Received: (qmail 11397 invoked from network); 1 Jul 1998 01:04:39 -0000 Received: from electric.tbe.net (207.99.115.10) by electric.tbe.net with SMTP; 1 Jul 1998 01:04:39 -0000 Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 21:04:37 -0400 (EDT) From: "Gary D. Margiotta" To: Andy Sparrow cc: rotel@indigo.ie, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPro vs PII In-Reply-To: <35989A91.BBF90786@best.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In the case of PPro's, with a price difference of ~$50 per chip, does it pay to spend the extra on the 166/512k ($145) as compared to the 180/256k? ($95) Straight clock speeds should dictate that the 166/512k would be a little faster due to the larger cache onboard. But if you overclock both to, say, 200, is there enough of a difference to notice it? I can study every benchmark and come out with a winner on paper, but is the price/performance worth it... ______________________________________________________________ -Gary Margiotta Voice: (973) 835-9696 TBE Internet Services Fax: (973) 835-2133 http://www.tbe.net E-Mail: gary@tbe.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message