[SunRescue] OT: dual PPro mb's...

[Cyrus M. Reed]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> [ On Thursday, March 29, 2001 at 21:26:34 (-0800), Cyrus M. Reed wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: [SunRescue] OT: dual PPro mb's...
> >
> > Don't forget that the cache runs at the full speed of the processor, not
> > half like the PII chips.  I'm running a dual PPro 200 system as my main
> > home desktop (which I've done for almost 3 years now), and it
> > "feels" faster than the PII 450 machine I have access to at school.  Of
> > course those run NT, and mine runs Linux...  That said, sounds like I
> > should consider upgrading to the 2.4 kernel, so it can be even better. :)
> 
> Although running the cache at full speed is highly desirable, so is
> having at least 512KB or more....  :-)

That's why I upgraded to two 512k chips (from 256k) a couple months
ago. :)  And together they cost less than a third of the second 256k chip
I bought for the machine.  Sigh...

-Cyrus