I bought a p6dgu Supermicro and two PII 333 Mhz CPUs. I am pretty happy with the setup (256Mb + ATI MACH64 8MB AGP + 9GB Ultra 2 SCSI with 1 MB cache) and performance under 2.1.125. The beast really flies and SMP is a wonder. A very good job done by all kernel people! What really pisses me off though is that I bought the 333 MHz chips planning to run them them at 100 Mhz bus speed and 350 Mhz CPU clock. But the CPUs I got have their multiplier locked at 5, which means I can run them at 500 or 333 Mhz only. I am seriously considering swapping my CPUs for 300 MHz and running those at 300Mhz/100Mhz setup. The question I have is: Would 300Mhz/100Mhz combo show really better performance than 333MHz/66Mhz under my hardware setup (256Mb ram and dual CPU)? From the first principles, I think that SMP should benefit from the faster memory access and AGP should really benefit because it runs at the bus speed. The question is how much? Please write what you think. Please do not flame Intel in this thread or it will grow beyond a reasonable size. (If you are mad at Intel, write directly to them and maybe they will listen.) Benchmarks would be especially welcome. Will someone who is curious enough and has a suitable hardware be willing to run some threaded benchmark, nbench, and xbench and share the results? Maybe someone has already done so? Or maybe there are other solutions that I do not know about? Constantine. ---------------------------------- Constantine Gavrilov Unix System Administration MIS, Indigo Ltd. Tel. 08-9381058 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 22-Oct-98 Time: 18:27:04 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------
