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? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.971109164411.27499A-100000@tundra.winternet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.971109104044.8551E-100000@dot.ishiboo.com>
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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 >
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