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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
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