Our Linux box does some heavy duty floating point maths, but, like
everyone, we have a limited budget.
One option that has occurred to us is to use celeron chips rather than
PII's.
We can buy a much faster celeron chip for the price and overclock them
as they are cheap enough to replace if we destroy them.
We have tested our process with a single celeron and get the required
performance, but have two questions:
1/ Will 2 celerons work together, we can't think of a reason why
not but thought we should ask
2/ Will we get the same performance gain from a celeron pair as
we would from a PII pair or would they be competing to much for access
to main memory without the cache's. We will be running 100MHz
motherboards so we think the smaller difference between cpu and main
memory speeds will offset this to some extent.
Has anyone tried this and can they give us their feelings on the matter
(and any stats they may have gathered :-) ).
Regards
Greg
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