From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Nov 4 18:12:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 035C715693 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 18:12:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA23702; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 12:39:32 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3.1 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199911050203.SAA04671@mina.sr.hp.com> Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 12:39:32 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Darryl Okahata Subject: Re: Dual Celeron + FreeBSD? Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message