Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 12:39:32 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual Celeron + FreeBSD? Message-ID: <XFMail.991105123932.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199911050203.SAA04671@mina.sr.hp.com>
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On 05-Nov-99 Darryl Okahata wrote: > These days, I'm not sure dual Celerons make sense. Unless you > overclock (which I don't recommend, for all the usual reasons), you're > only saving, oh, US$200-$230 compared to a comparable Pentium II-based > system. Also, because of the small 128K L2 cache and the 66MHz bus (no > overclocking, remember?), dual Celerons aren't as fast as dual P2s. *Only* US$200-$300? Sure the cache thing sucks ass, but if you are building a workstation on the cheap then they're ideal.. I personally wouldn't mind saving US$250 :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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