On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Bradley, Greg wrote:
> One option that has occurred to us is to use celeron chips rather than
> PII's.
That's an interesting idea, and admittedly not one I thought much about.
I think you'd be better off with 4 PPros than 2 sticks of celery.
> 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.
I think you should plan on not burning out your chips, celeron or not. :)
Especially for Linux with SMP you should consider overclocking as a bonus
for something you might possibly be able to do, and not as something you
plan to do.
> 1/ Will 2 celerons work together, we can't think of a reason why
> not but thought we should ask
I don't know. Not all Pentium chips have the SMP abilities they're
supposed to, apparently Intel sold some broken ones to people like Packard
Bell that they knew would never use the whole chip. You might have
similar problem with the Celeron, the 486sx of the modern world.
> 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
My guess is that the lack of cache will hurt you. Obviously 100MHz RAM
will help, but cache becomes increasingly important when you have twice as
much load on the RAM. It'd be like having a 50MHz bus for one CPU, not
good.
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