On Mar 8, 2007, at 9:24 PM, Eric Anderson wrote:
[ ... ]
Dunno. I was merely trying to keep things honest, since what was
communicated (whether intended or not) was that a C3 isn't modern,
and is akin to a Pentium, which it isn't.
I've got a VIA C3 Samuel myself, and it is fine for what it is, which
is a low-power clone of the Pentium-MMX in terms of capabilities; the
newer C3 Nehemiah is roughly comparable to a P2, plus SSE and the
extra AES/RNG crypto stuff. Look at dmesg or cpuid and compare CPU
features.
A quick sample from http://www.nycbug.org/?NAV=dmesgd;f_bsd=FreeBSD
suggests:
CPU: VIA C3 Samuel 2 (601.37-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "CentaurHauls" Id = 0x673 Stepping = 3
Features=0x803035<FPU,DE,TSC,MSR,MTRR,PGE,MMX>
CPU: Pentium/P55C (167.05-MHz 586-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x543 Stepping = 3
Features=0x8001bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,MMX>
CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (397.33-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x652 Stepping = 2
Features=0x183fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,
MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR>
CPU: VIA C3 Nehemiah+RNG (1000.35-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "CentaurHauls" Id = 0x693 Stepping = 3
Features=0x380b33d<FPU,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,CX8,APIC,MTRR,PGE,CMOV,MMX,FXSR,SS
E>
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU family 1400MHz (1403.27-MHz 686-
class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x6b1 Stepping = 1
Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,
MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
--
-Chuck
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