[plug] Dual Celerons ...

[Mike Holland]

On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Trevor Phillips wrote:

> Ok, I'm back on this issue, yet again considering the Dual CPU option...

Why bother? Do you have any reason to believe you would notice a
performance difference between single or dual ? Celeron vs PIII?

The only time many people hit their CPU limit is with 3D animation games,
wanting to increase the frame rate. A 2nd CPU wont normally help here.
(actually, SMP support is rumoured for QuakeIII)

Why not spend the money on two computers (Linux and windoze), a bigger
monitor, more memory, etc. - could be lots more useful.

> What is the groups opinion on these alternatives? I've heared reports that
> Dual Celeron isn't worth it due to the small L2 cache, but on the other hand

Depends on the application. 128k cache can give a very good hit ratio, and
its faster than the PII cache.

> I've seen benchmarks which show Celeron's going quite well, single or dual!

See my .signature

> Ok, so part of this re-interest is due to the recent new Q3Test benchmarks by

Ahah! Now we get to some real basis for an answer.
This may well be the only issue that should affect your choice.


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