Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 14:32:11 -0800 (PST) From: Andrew Sparrow <spadger@best.com> To: paul@originative.co.uk Cc: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, culverk@wam.umd.edu, phiber@udel.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: FreeBSD Celeron and Celeron ( Mendocino ) kernel patch. Message-ID: <199901172232.OAA14740@shell7.ba.best.com>
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> I disagree. From an user perspective I think it will be confusing to > general users to report PII when they think they've got a Celeron. From > a support perspective it might be useful to know what CPU is actually > installed rather than just the class of CPU. FWIW, that would be my preference too. It's a warm fuzzy to know that the hardware was correctly identified, even if there's no specific optimisations for it. :) > On a related note, I'd be interested in benchmarks for the Celerons, how > does the on-chip cache compare to the off-chip cache. Very well, it seems. http://www.tomshardware.com has a bunch of benchmarks for the Celerons, both overclocked (overbussed) and regular speed(s), comparisons to AMD K6's and PIIs, as well as much interesting information on motherboards, chipsets and CPUs - including why the Slot 1 form factor is already doomed.. Cheers, AS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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