From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Jun 29 07:00:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA19715 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 07:00:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from indigo.ie (nsmart@ts01-03.waterford.indigo.ie [194.125.139.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA19673 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 07:00:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rotel@indigo.ie) Received: (from nsmart@localhost) by indigo.ie (8.8.8/8.8.7) id OAA00515; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 14:34:23 +0100 (IST) (envelope-from rotel@ginseng.indigo.ie) From: Niall Smart Message-Id: <199806291334.OAA00515@indigo.ie> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 14:34:23 +0000 In-Reply-To: Atipa "Re: PPro vs PII" (Jun 28, 8:38pm) Reply-To: rotel@indigo.ie X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(3) 11/17/96) To: Atipa , Niall Smart Subject: Re: PPro vs PII Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Jun 28, 8:38pm, Atipa wrote: } Subject: Re: PPro vs PII > > The P2 will smoke it. Better yet, go up to 350 or 400MHz, then you can > utilize 100MHz system bus. I was thinking of trying 300Mhz P2s at 100Mhz system bus using the hack described at www.sysdoc.pair.com. > 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. But the P2 has a much slower cache clock speed, what is a DIB? And how is the DRAM access faster if both the P2 and PPro use a 66Mhz system bus? Thanks, 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