From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 6 20:53:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA09409 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 20:53:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA09402 for ; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 20:53:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) id XAA00503; Thu, 6 Nov 1997 23:53:05 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199711070453.XAA00503@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: WTB: Pentium Pro 180 In-Reply-To: from Open Systems Networking at "Nov 6, 97 10:56:11 pm" To: opsys@mail.webspan.net (Open Systems Networking) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 23:53:05 -0500 (EST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Open Systems Networking said: > > BTW whats the scoop on the Pentium II's, I hear there not as good at > performing as the Pro's. Just gossip i hear nothing factual. > Most of the info that I have heard is that a P-II/233 is more often faster than a P6/200MHz than the other way around. I think that alot of techies like myself are unhappy about the 1/2 speed cache of the P-II. Also, alot of people are disappointed about the lack of future support of Socket-8 and the almost gratuitious change (except for marketing reasons) to Slot-1. For my apps, a P-II is roughly equiv to a P6, and not enough of an upgrade to be worthwile. In fact, for some apps (that can use phys mem > 512M), a P-II is a terrible choice, because it cannot cache >512M of memory. For the price, if you can find one and the associated MB, a low-end P6 is a very good deal. -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com