From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 18 07:44:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA21036 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 07:44:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp05.wxs.nl (smtp05.wxs.nl [195.121.6.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA20960 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 07:44:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from chronias.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.58.153]) by smtp05.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA29D6; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 15:43:57 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199811181535.KAA05060@laker.net> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 16:48:27 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: Steve Friedrich Subject: RE: Server Spec Cc: "ml1@geocities.co.jp" , "ml1@geocities.co.jp" , "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18-Nov-98 Steve Friedrich wrote: > On Wed, 18 Nov 1998 09:19:01 +0100 (CET), Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: >>Does the A denote cache then? > > It does, but only for the 300MHz part. There's another CPU speed (333 > MHz) that also has cache, but no "A" to identify it as such. The 300A > can be overclocked into the 400MHz range (until Intel locks the clock > on newer parts). I thought they had a small chip in there that went against that? > The 300A has better overclock ability than the 333. See Tom's hardware > page regarding that. I generally don't advocate overclocking, but it > WOULD be cool to try it at home with a non-production FreeBSD machine. This 166 MMX here is running at 200 ;) but then again, ye will run against I/O saturation long between saturating yer CPU. > If I remember correctly, the Celeron WITH cache, runs it's cache at the > CPU speed, whereas the PII runs it's cache at half the CPU speed. The > Celeron is FREAKIN' CHEAP !!! The Xeon runs at full speed too... --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl | Cum angelis et pueris, Junior Network/Security Specialist | fideles inveniamur *BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message