With the recent price drops in the Celeron's earlier in the month, I'm
about ready to try an butcher a CPU or two to try and get SMP going in
these processor's. Id like a few words of advice, if you will oblidge
me...
Since the 300A's can often run at 450Mhz, what type of performance can I
expect to see out of two Celeron's compared to two PII's? I know this is
a subjective question, but I am concerned about the size of the L2 cache
and how 128K at core speed compares with 512K at 1/2 core speed. I know
that a Celeron at 450 performs well in non-smp situations, but is
performance good in SMP situations as well? Or should I avoid the
Celeron's and go for PII 300's?
I've basically decided on the Asus board (unless someone has a better
recomendation). The plethora of bus speeds is necessary for a
overclocker like myself. However, can you set the core voltage on the
motherboard? If so, what voltages and granularity are supported? The
user's manual has no mention of how to set core voltage but the
overcolcking pages seem to indicate that the board can vary the core
voltage.
The other thing that needs considering is to go with onboard SCSI or
not. Is there any advantage or disadvantage with going with onboard SCSI
as compared with a PCI SCSI card? I already have an Adaptec 2940AU.
Should I stick with that, or should I go with onboard SCSI and upgrade
to ultrawide. And what exactly is dual channel SCSI and are there any
advantages in SMP applications?
I'll be using the machine for Linux, Be and NT. Win98 for those games
that require it. (I know, SMP will be wasted under 98). Mainly code
development and compiling under Linux. Be for graphic work and
ray-tracing.
Thanks in advance,
Thomas...
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