From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 17 8:18:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alice.twopoint.com (unknown [209.64.88.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4CE937B4C5 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 08:18:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from twopoint.com (hamilton@fred.twopoint.com [192.168.1.3]) by alice.twopoint.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA00440; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 10:19:43 -0600 Message-ID: <3A155B20.9A35B2A8@twopoint.com> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 10:21:52 -0600 From: Hamilton Hoover Organization: Two Point Conversions, INC. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric De La Cruz Lugo Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Performance comparison. References: <200011112225.eABMPcW332585@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <20001116160034.A28365@widomaker.com> <008801c0501b$74113e00$4d011c0a@delacruz.avis.com.mx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > HI!, there is a performance comparisson between an Intel CELERON > Processor > at 600 Mhz and a Pentium III Xeon at the same speed (600Mhz)? > > I ask this because am going to buy a processor for a FreeBSD > system, it will > be used has desktop (some times) and home server (Proxy server for > other 3 > computers with Win98, maybe this FreeBSD server will be used has a > Web > Server and SQL (Postgress or solid) Server in the near future. > > This server will have 1 64 MB DIMM or 128 MB DIMM and a IDE DISK > SAMSUNG > with 10.2GB Have you priced a Xenon? Think about what you want your system to be able to do. The Xenon is the better chip but at a huge cost difference. You may want to think about getting the celeron pumping up the memory and going scsi before you go with the Xenon. IMHO Hamilton Hoover To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message