From: dan (dan@Clemmensen.ShireNet.com)
Date: Sun Jul 11 1999 - 08:46:45 MDT
Eugene Leitl wrote:
>
> Michael S. Lorrey writes:
>
> > A Celeron, put quite plainly, is a POS. It has a really pissy small
> > cache. A dual PII 450 actually is faster than just a 900 equivalence.
>
> Not so. An overclocked 300A (if you can get'em) is actually almost
> always faster than equivalent PII/450 (size doesn't always matter ;).
> Nota bene, there are also dual-CPU Celerons boards out there.
> Currently the best deal for the money by far.
I've been using my new Linux box for about a week. It's a dual
celeron300A, overclocked to 466Mhz. I picked this system to optimize
processing horsepower per dollar. Sure, dual PII450s are faster for
some applications, but they are a lot more expensive, and the
celerons are faster for other applications. The Celerons have
less cache, but they access the cache in one front-side bus cycle.
the PIIs have more cache, but they access the cache in two bus cycles.
I didn't use a dual-celeron motherboard. I used a dual slot 1 board
instead.
This means I can convert over to PIIs or PIIIs if intel should ever
inadvertently manufacture a cheap, overclockable version as they did
for the Celeron. To use the celeron in a slot 1, you first place the
celeron on a "slocket". Works great.
Why is this Extropian? well, It shows that computers are getting very
fast and very cheap. This is helping to drive the astounding
proliferation
of Open Source software. At this point, the only reason to buy
software is inertia, or if the software is extremely specialized.
This may be a model for an "Open Stuff" economy that could occur
with Drextech.
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