Re: tlug: Pentium 2 vs old Pentium

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Jonathan Byrne wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
> 
> > management and maintenance and whatnot. Surely a pentium 90 is still
> > "thinking" faster than the information that's coming in to it via the Net.
> > But am i going to feel a difference big enough that would make me consider
> > just staying on the PII machine, or is it negligible enough that i will be
> > better off with my won hardware?
> 
> I ran a Pentium 90 Linux box for a long time, and now it's up to a
> whopping Pentium 100 :-)  I find the performance to be acceptable under X,
> and if you will not be running X, you will find a Pentium 90 to be
> downright fast.  A PII is a lot faster, of course, but a low-end Pentium
> should give you satisfactory performance.  You might want to consider
> adding some more memory, though.  Mine has 48 meg, and it does help.
> Memory is cheap, so pick up another 32 meg for it and you'll be in great
> shape.

You could also drop an AMD K5 or K6 onto that old motherboard - they're
socket-7 chips like the old P5.  That would gain you a *lot* of speed.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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