From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 25 00:09:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C8DD16A4CE for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 00:09:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from thor.65535.net (thor.65535.net [216.17.104.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7635143FE9 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 00:09:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rghf@fsck.me.uk) Received: from [212.228.151.253] (helo=bitch.localdomain) by thor.65535.net with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1AOYDL-000Mkt-UQ; Tue, 25 Nov 2003 00:06:28 -0800 Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 08:10:22 +0000 (GMT) From: Rus Foster X-X-Sender: rghf@bitch.localdomain To: chael@southgate.ph.inter.net In-Reply-To: <001001c3b32b$17d50d30$fe01a8c0@JMICH> Message-ID: References: <001001c3b32b$17d50d30$fe01a8c0@JMICH> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: celerons | pentiums X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 08:09:31 -0000 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