Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 08:10:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Rus Foster <rghf@fsck.me.uk> To: chael@southgate.ph.inter.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: celerons | pentiums Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0311250809420.27248@bitch.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <001001c3b32b$17d50d30$fe01a8c0@JMICH> References: <001001c3b32b$17d50d30$fe01a8c0@JMICH>
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On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 chael@southgate.ph.inter.net wrote: > A newbie question: I don't know much really about the differences of > the two processors except that (I think) Pentiums has a multimedia > extension and Celerons has NOT. So, is there a significant gain (if any) > in performance if you use Pentiums than Celerons on FreeBSD that is > running as say a cache/proxy server? If not, is it right to think that > the extra money we shell out for a Pentium is not really worth if we're > not gonna be using it on a graphical environment with media players, et > al? The Pentium have a lot bigger caching making them a lot faster in most operations. Unless cost is that much of an issue for for Pentiums Rus -- w: http://www.jvps.com | Virtual Dedicated Servers from $15/mo e: rghf@jvds.com | Donations made to Debian, FreeBSD t: +44 7919 373537 | and Slackware t: 1-888-327-6330 | email: sales@jvds.com
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