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Date:      Fri, 05 Nov 1999 12:39:32 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com>
Cc:        freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dual Celeron + FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.991105123932.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199911050203.SAA04671@mina.sr.hp.com>

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On 05-Nov-99 Darryl Okahata wrote:
>       These days, I'm not sure dual Celerons make sense.  Unless you
>  overclock (which I don't recommend, for all the usual reasons), you're
>  only saving, oh, US$200-$230 compared to a comparable Pentium II-based
>  system.  Also, because of the small 128K L2 cache and the 66MHz bus (no
>  overclocking, remember?), dual Celerons aren't as fast as dual P2s.

*Only* US$200-$300?

Sure the cache thing sucks ass, but if you are building a workstation on the
cheap then they're ideal..

I personally wouldn't mind saving US$250 :)

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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