On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A newbie question: I don't know much really about the differences of > the two processors except that (I think) Pentiums has a multimedia > extension and Celerons has NOT. So, is there a significant gain (if any) > in performance if you use Pentiums than Celerons on FreeBSD that is > running as say a cache/proxy server? If not, is it right to think that > the extra money we shell out for a Pentium is not really worth if we're > not gonna be using it on a graphical environment with media players, et > al?
The Pentium have a lot bigger caching making them a lot faster in most operations. Unless cost is that much of an issue for for Pentiums Rus -- w: http://www.jvps.com | Virtual Dedicated Servers from $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Donations made to Debian, FreeBSD t: +44 7919 373537 | and Slackware t: 1-888-327-6330 | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
