First of all - thanks to all of you who have replied to my original post.
It has at least given me something to think about.
Second - I should clarify a pint I made in my original post. When I said I
would "impress my friends running Win98 with a system that really rocks" I
meant my friends were running Win98 and I was running a dual-CPU Linux box
and I was doing the rocking. One comma can make so much difference to a
sentence ;-)
A few more questions.
Overclocking a Celeron - I know a lot has been written about this in a lot
of places but 1 quick question - I know overclocking voids the Intel
warranty (in fact I think running dual-Celerons voids the warranty also - I
might have read that on Slashdot) but can it actually fry the CPU, or does
it just make the system unstable? I have also read (RedHat site perhaps?)
that Linux does not take kindly to overclocked systems because it has a
faster kernal and therefore more susceptible to system timing problems. Is
this still true?
Some of you mentioned that SCSI gives a much higher performance than IDE,
especially when dealing with multiple requests. IF I have 4 IDE devices on
4 separate channels (as opposed to two), can Linux make a request to each
device concurrently? How does this differ from the way SCSI makes requests
to drives?
For PBen - SLab runs on Linux. Have a look at
http://www.llornkcor.com/SLab/SLab.html As the web site says it takes a bit
to learn. I am still very much in the learning stage at the moment. I need
a month off work so I can sit down and learn.
Aaron deRozario
