From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 17 12:47:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 91B5937B479 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 12:47:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 5241 invoked by uid 100); 17 Nov 2000 20:47:46 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14869.39281.931859.671356@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:47:45 -0600 (CST) To: Hamilton Hoover Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Performance comparison. In-Reply-To: <5716491@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hamilton Hoover types: > > HI!, there is a performance comparisson between an Intel CELERON > > Processor > > at 600 Mhz and a Pentium III Xeon at the same speed (600Mhz)? > > > > I ask this because am going to buy a processor for a FreeBSD > > system, it will > > be used has desktop (some times) and home server (Proxy server for > > other 3 > > computers with Win98, maybe this FreeBSD server will be used has a > > Web > > Server and SQL (Postgress or solid) Server in the near future. > > This server will have 1 64 MB DIMM or 128 MB DIMM and a IDE DISK > > SAMSUNG > > with 10.2GB > Have you priced a Xenon? Think about what you want your system to be > able to do. The Xenon is the better chip but at a huge cost difference. > You may want to think about getting the celeron pumping up the memory > and going scsi before you go with the Xenon. IMHO That's Xeon, and yes, I know what they cost. I also know that my Xeon systems is a screamer. Actually, going scsi and more memory isn't the only choice. You can trade clock speed for internal cache at a fixed price point for the CPU (motherboards may be another problem). I.e. - for around $80, I can get either a 700MHz Celeron with 128K of cache, or a 450MHz Xeon with four times the cache. For another $20, I can double the cache on the Xeon. The question is - which is going to be better for the application mix *you* want to run?