[CLUE-Tech] Celron v. PIII on Linux

[Mike Staver]

Not to mention Pentium III has 133 FSB in the newer models, while the
celeron is at 100 finally.  Also, the cache shouldn't be the same - the
P III should have a considerable amount more, and I'm also assuming that
the P III has stuff like SSE, but I'm not sure. 

"Timothy C. Klein" wrote:
> 
> * Randy Arabie (rrarabie at arabie.org) wrote:
> > In the world of Linux, or Unix in general, what are the advantages
> > of a PIII over a Celeron....assuming they both have the same clock
> > speed, FSB speed, and level 2 onboard cache?
>                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This won't happen, as far as I know.  I haven't paid attention as much
> to the new line of Celerons, but I believe this is the only difference
> between the PIII and the Celeron.  The Celeron has half the cache (128K).
> The older celeron had a 66 rather 100 Mhz bus, but I *think* the newer
> line has a 100 Mhz bus now.
> 
> > I'll qualify my question with a little on what apps I'll be running:
> >
> >       DB (MySQL or Postgresql),
> >       compilers,
> >       X,
> >       Office Suite (don't know which),
> >       Gimp,
> >       apache & PHP,
> >       email.
> >
> > This will be a development/workstation box.  No games...nothing against
> > 'em, I just don't play 'em.
> >
> > Are any of these apps in the Linux world written to take advantage
> > additional instruction set(s) available on the PIII (assuming that is
> > the difference between a PIII and Celeron)?
> >
> > And, the reason I've limited this to Intel is I've already got the
> > Socket 370 mainboard.
> >
> > --
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Randy
> 
> I don't think you will notice a heck of a lot of difference.  The
> Celerons I had are the older kind, 433 and 466 Mhz.  They compare pretty
> fairly to the PIII 500 I have.  They will access the disk a bit more,
> and be somewhat slower than the same clockspeed PIII, becuase of the
> cache issue.  If the FSB is indeed 100 Mhz on the newer one, then they
> will be quit similar.
> 
> Tim
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