Re: seti@home

Michael S. Lorrey (mike@lorrey.com)
Sun, 11 Jul 1999 11:59:25 -0400

dan wrote:
>
> Eugene Leitl wrote:
> >
> > Michael S. Lorrey writes:
> >
> > > A Celeron, put quite plainly, is a POS. It has a really pissy small
> > > cache. A dual PII 450 actually is faster than just a 900 equivalence.
> >
> > Not so. An overclocked 300A (if you can get'em) is actually almost
> > always faster than equivalent PII/450 (size doesn't always matter ;).
> > Nota bene, there are also dual-CPU Celerons boards out there.
> > Currently the best deal for the money by far.
>
> I've been using my new Linux box for about a week. It's a dual
> celeron300A, overclocked to 466Mhz.

Ouch! You don't plan on owning those chips for very long?

Mike Lorrey