On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 12:47:49PM -0500, Greg Youngblood wrote:
> Thought I'd jump in here at this point...
>
> > Well, will it be worth the difference? Will one Athlon really be so much
> > faster than two Celerons, and will you actually notice it in common
> > applications? How about memory bandwidth and the like, are the Athlon
> > mainboards so much better in general than e.g. the ABIT board?
>
> In my testing and comparison of a single Athlon 500 versus two Celeron 400
> overclocked to 520 the Athlon was just a little bit slower. I don't
> remember the exact seconds, but the Athlon was only about 5 seconds slower
> building a 2.2 series kernel (make bzImage). Both systems completed the
> entire build process (make dep; make clean; make bzImage; make modules) in
> under 5 minutes.
This sounds pretty reasonable considering you were only using one of your
celerons to compile.
If you aren't even using the "-j" flag for make then a dual processor system
is wasted on you and you might as well go UP.
--Adam
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