From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Nov 4 18:36:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from megadodo.segNET.COM (megadodo.segNET.COM [206.34.181.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39B3E15817 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 18:36:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adams@digitalspark.net) Received: from nightfall.digitalspark.net (arc2a119.bf.sover.net [209.198.82.121]) by megadodo.segNET.COM (8.9.1a/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA22532; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:26:34 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:26:34 +0000 (GMT) From: Adam Strohl To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: Darryl Okahata , freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual Celeron + FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In the real world the 1/2 the cache at 2x the speed makes all of JACK in performance difference from the "real" PIIs. It rocks. - ----( Adam Strohl )------------------------------------------------ - - UNIX Operations/Systems http://www.digitalspark.net - - adams (at) digitalspark.net xxx.xxx.xxxx xxxxx - - ----------------------------------------( DigitalSpark.NET )------- - On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message