From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jun 9 20:05:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA04058 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 20:05:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (Ilsa.StevesCafe.com [205.168.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA04050 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 20:05:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA18334; Mon, 9 Jun 1997 21:04:52 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199706100304.VAA18334@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 From: Steve Passe To: Tom Samplonius cc: Steve Passe , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fastest possible FreeBSD system? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 09 Jun 1997 18:57:38 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 09 Jun 1997 21:04:52 -0600 Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 --- > 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. -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD