From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 27 10:50:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from marine.sonic.net (marine.sonic.net [208.201.224.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 087B337B42A for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 10:50:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 22465 invoked from network); 27 Sep 2001 17:50:26 -0000 Received: from buzz.sonic.net (208.201.224.78) by marine.sonic.net with SMTP; 27 Sep 2001 17:50:26 -0000 Received: from wingerboy.sonic.net (fw.office.sonic.net [209.204.177.119]) by buzz.sonic.net (8.11.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id f8RHoQL32556; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 10:50:26 -0700 X-envelope-info: Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 10:50:23 -0700 From: Kelsey Cummings To: Bsd Newbie Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: notable differences between a Cel633 and P3-1000 Message-ID: <20010927105023.S953@sonic.net> References: <20010927174638.23474.qmail@web20103.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010927174638.23474.qmail@web20103.mail.yahoo.com>; from bsdneophyte@yahoo.com on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 10:46:38AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 10:46:38AM -0700, Bsd Newbie wrote: > > Right now, I have FreeBSD running on a machine with a Celeron 633 with a > gig of ram... I am thinking about installing this processor onto my dad's > machine and upgrading the box to a P3-1ghz+ > > I want to know if it's really worth spending the extra cash? Is there a > huge difference in performance (including the performance of Xfree86, or > is this purely dependant on the graphics chipset)... or will the > performance only be seen with certain things like compiling? There are plenty of benhmarks that will demonstrate how much faster a 1Ghz PIII is over a 633mhz Celeron. Of course nearly everything will be faster. It a big jump in bus speed, L2 cache size, memory performance, FPU performance, etc. I'd look at tomshardware.com or sharkyextreme.com. Although usually bent towards gaming, the benchmarks can be revealing. -- Kelsey Cummings - kgc@sonic.net sonic.net System Administrator 300 B Street, Ste 101 707.522.1000 (Voice) Santa Rosa, CA 95404 707.547.2199 (Fax) http://www.sonic.net/ Fingerprint = 7F 59 43 1B 44 8A 0D 57 91 08 73 73 7A 48 90 C5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message