This is why people should read up on things...
There is absolutely no advantage to Slot 1, if you are thinking such
things as bus speeds and AGP, those can be accomplished on a Socket 7
motherboard (or Super Socket 7 if you prefer). The only reason Intel went
to Slot 1 was to make it look like they have a cutting edge technology,
which is simply not true.
Jimmy Thomson
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Peeyush Singh wrote:
> I've heard just the opposite. The PII can overclock better then
> AMDs...One reason why the PII is in the Slot 1 technology and the AMD is
> still in the Socket. Also, I don't give my support out to overclocking. I
> admit right now that I don't know much about overclocknig, but what I do
> know is not in favor of it. One comment I've heard (straight from Intel),
> is that there is a crystal on your motherboard and there is one in your cpu.
> When the dot-frequencies don't match, the system (specifically the Cpu
> Cycles and the Timer Tick's with the Cpu compared to the motherboard Timer)
> becomes unstable.
>
> -Regards
> Peeyush Singh
>
>
> >According to every site I've checked, including Tom's Hardware
> >and CPU review, the AMD K6-2 (a.k.a. K6-3D) will perform well
> >within 1% of an equivalent PII. Under Linux, CPU Review's
> >kernel compilation benchmarks put the PII at about 0.82% faster.
> >Tom's Hardware Quake scores (under Win '95) are similar.
> >I mention the Win 95 scores w/quake II only to illustrate that
> >these are different Operating Systems, and VERY different
> >applications (but both very CPU intensive.)
> >
> >My opinion: Choosing a PII over a K6-2 with the same Mhz rating
> >doesn't really make sense. I can't justify paying hundreds
> >of dollars more to get an performance increase of less than 1%.
> >Add to the that the fact that AMD processors tend to overclock
> >very well, (just about everybody seems to be overlocking their
> >AMD,) it's really no contest.
> >
> >Also, kernel compilation results suggest that you should avoid
> >the Celeron processor like a leper colony.
> >
> >Bryan Scaringe
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm going to change my PII 266.
> >> Does the AMD K6-3D 300MHz better than the PII for Linux?
> >>
> >> Jerome Gasperi
> >>
> >>
> >
>
