From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 24 18:20:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA15335 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 18:20:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA15305 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 18:20:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA07363; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 10:49:40 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA17640; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 10:49:33 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980725104932.Y716@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 10:49:32 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: steven wesley wilson , Chris Dillon Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Supported Hardware in FreeBSD References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from steven wesley wilson on Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 12:10:47PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 24 July 1998 at 12:10:47 -0500, steven wesley wilson wrote: >> Anyway, is there any particlar reason you want a Celeron processor? >> Those have no L2 cache, and performance can suffer badly. The Celeron >> was meant to be bought by people who had no idea what it was missing. > > Thanks for responding, I'm interested in the Celeron because it is a cheap > alternative. I realize it has not L2 cache, but through overclocking I > understand you can drive the processer at close to p2 350 performance. If > this is the case(I know people who are doing it), I thought I'ld save a > few bucks. Any thoughts. I think the Celeron is about the worst choice you can make. If you want real high performance, buy a real P-II. If you want to save money, buy an AMD or Cyrix. From memory, the AMD K6 is cheaper than the Celeron and has higher performance. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message