From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 4 17:06:00 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA04325 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 16:59:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [12.9.219.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA04316 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 16:59:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Received: from HARLIE.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [12.9.219.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA00490; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 16:58:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 16:58:34 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: Greg Lehey cc: Betsy Barker , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD run on Intel Celeron processors? In-Reply-To: <19990105110449.G70886@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Monday, 4 January 1999 at 12:07:25 -0700, Betsy Barker wrote: > > Does the FreeBSD software run on the Intel Celeron processor? > > Yes. But the Celeron is a poor choice of processor, since it has no > cache. You'd be better off with AMD or Cyrix. The new Celerons have a 128K cache in them that is run at clock speed, rather than half-clock, which makes up at least a little bit for the smaller size. In fact, the cacheless Celerons have already disappeared from my normal supply sources. Now, the K6-2 has a L1 cache half the size of the Celeron's L2 cache, and the K6-3 should be quite impressive with on-chip L2 cache, so I'd agree that the AMD family seems to be better than the Celeron in all non-FPU areas, though not as overclockable. On the other hand, I haven't seen anything from Cyrix recently that matches the performance of either, though I haven't kept up well at all. Then again, I'm a stick in the mud, I'm planning on sticking with my Dual PPro 200/512K L2 cache system until I decide that that isn't enough speed. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message