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Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 16:44:52 -0600 (CST)
From: Kyle Mestery <mestery@winternet.com>
To: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com>
cc: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>, freebsd-smp@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Best processor?
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On Sun, 9 Nov 1997, Atipa wrote:
1) PII can only scale to 2 CPUs.
2) PII can only cache 512MB RAM
Kyle Mestery
StorageTek's Network Systems Group
7600 Boone Ave. N., Minneapolis, MN 55428
mesteka@anubis.network.com, mestery@winternet.com
"You do not greet Death, you punch him in the throat
repeatedly until he drags you away." --No Fear
> In a nutshell:
>
> 1) PPro is faster than P-II (at THE SAME CLOCK RATE) for native
> 32-bit code
>
> --- BUT ---
>
> 2) PII is faster IN GENERAL after you consider the higher clock rate
> (233 is faster that Pro-200; 266 and 300 kick its ass)
>
> 3) P-Pro is currently "unsupported" by Intel. They are not making any
> other boards, BIOSes, etc., etc. They do not want this line
> to continue due to high production costs. P-II pricing is going
> down, but PPro pricing is actually raising (poor supply in
> the market).
>
> 4) Pentium II is more expandible (up to 500+ MHz)
>
> 5) Pentium II uses MMX extensions
>
> 6) Pentium II chipsets support AGP, UDMA, SDRAM, etc...
>
> 7) Pentium II uses Dual Independent Bus (DIB) and has twice the
> on-chip L1 cache (although L2 is running at 1/2 speed)
>
> 8) It has now been "tried and true"
>
>
> That's my personal opinion. I know that Terry and some other's wont agree
> :)
>
> Kevin
>