On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Dennis wrote: > > In a nutshell, does anyone have a handle on the relative preformance of > these are? > > 233Mhz P5 vs 233Mhz Celeron
233MHz P5 (w/L2 cache on motherboard) > 233MHz Celeron (no L2 cache) > 333Mhz Celeron vs 333 Mhz PII In my experience, the Celeron CPUs which have the 128KB full-speed cache are pretty much on-par (though not always) with the PII CPUs with 512KB half-speed cache. I have noticed that in certain computationally-heavy situations that the smaller Celeron cache hurts (cracking a password with John The Ripper, for instance), even though it runs at a higher clock rate. Last time I looked, the price difference was enough that the Celeron gives you more bang for the buck. -- Chris Dillon - cdil...@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdil...@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures (SPARC under development). ( http://www.freebsd.org ) "One should admire Windows users. It takes a great deal of courage to trust Windows with your data." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
