Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 10:49:32 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: steven wesley wilson <swwilso1@students.uiuc.edu>, Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Supported Hardware in FreeBSD Message-ID: <19980725104932.Y716@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980724120819.8830A-100000@ux7.cso.uiuc.edu>; from steven wesley wilson on Fri, Jul 24, 1998 at 12:10:47PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980724112615.8714C-100000@duey.hs.wolves.k12.mo.us> <Pine.SOL.3.96.980724120819.8830A-100000@ux7.cso.uiuc.edu>
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On Friday, 24 July 1998 at 12:10:47 -0500, steven wesley wilson wrote: >> Anyway, is there any particlar reason you want a Celeron processor? >> Those have no L2 cache, and performance can suffer badly. The Celeron >> was meant to be bought by people who had no idea what it was missing. > > Thanks for responding, I'm interested in the Celeron because it is a cheap > alternative. I realize it has not L2 cache, but through overclocking I > understand you can drive the processer at close to p2 350 performance. If > this is the case(I know people who are doing it), I thought I'ld save a > few bucks. Any thoughts. I think the Celeron is about the worst choice you can make. If you want real high performance, buy a real P-II. If you want to save money, buy an AMD or Cyrix. From memory, the AMD K6 is cheaper than the Celeron and has higher performance. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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