From owner-freebsd-smp Sun Jun 28 20:42:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA28966 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 20:42:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.atipa.com (altrox.atipa.com [208.128.22.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA28943 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 20:41:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@atipa.com) Received: (qmail 5669 invoked by uid 1017); 29 Jun 1998 02:38:52 -0000 Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 20:38:52 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa To: Niall Smart cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PPro vs PII In-Reply-To: <199806281821.TAA01235@indigo.ie> 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 The P2 will smoke it. Better yet, go up to 350 or 400MHz, then you can utilize 100MHz system bus. Since the P2 has DIB (dual independent bus) for the L2 cache, higher clock rates, and much faster DRAM access, you'll definitely notice the difference. Pros are at the end of their lifecycle, and will be hard to support. Kevin On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Niall Smart wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to decide between a system based on 2x PPro 200Mhz > w/256KB cache or 2x PII 300Mhz. Does anyone have any relevant > benchmarks? > > Niall > > > -- > Niall Smart. PGP: finger njs3@motmot.doc.ic.ac.uk > FreeBSD: Turning PC's into Workstations: www.freebsd.org > Annoy your enemies and astonish your friends: > echo "#define if(x) if (!(x))" >> /usr/include/stdio.h > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message