Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 21:04:52 -0600 From: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net> To: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> Cc: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fastest possible FreeBSD system? Message-ID: <199706100304.VAA18334@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Jun 1997 18:57:38 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970609185421.18686B-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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Hi,
> > 233mHz PPros, now that the PII is available, and intel is struggling to make
> > the PII look attractive from a performance point of view.
>
> I thought the PII was intented to a consumer level product, while the
> PPro was the server/workstation product? The smaller cache, and new cost
> saving chip packaging seems to point towards targetting the consumer
> market.
The cache isn't smaller, just slower. Since a PII-233x512 will outperform
a PPro-200x512, and is already considerably cheaper, I don't see a
consumer vs server distinction (even if intel sales might want us to think so).
It's not clear to me yet whether the PII will support a quad setup, but
dual boards are available now.
Intel Pentium II 266 512K $888
Intel Pentium II 233 512K $748
Intel Pentium Pro 200 512K $1072
Intel Pentium Pro 200 256K $525
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> What about the difference between a PPro with 256k onchip cache, as
>opposed to 512k onchip cache?
I haven't seen anything definative on this yet. Since you can't turn off
the top 256k cache its hard to find otherwise identical setups for a fair test.
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