Bang for the Buck, comparing Celerons to Xeons (and PIIIs?)

[David Bristel]

Now, what we need is a Dual-AMD Athlon system overclocked to 750MHz(This is
doable without extra cooling according to some sources).  Think we can get AMD
to donate one or two systems for the cause?

							Dave Bristel


On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, George Bonser wrote:

> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 20:45:20 -0700 (PDT)
> From: George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com>
> To: Alan DuBoff <maestro@SoftOrchestra.com>
> Cc: BAD Boys & Girls <bad@kitenet.net>
> Subject: RE: Bang for the Buck, comparing Celerons to Xeons (and PIIIs?)
> 
> 
> On 11-Sep-99 Alan DuBoff wrote:
> > I was comparing 2 different SMP machines just now.
> > 
> > On both machines I'm running Debian potato which was updated, dist-upgrade'd,
> > and upgraded before starting the test. Each machine is running the latest
> > compilers, 2.95.1 from unstable.
> 
> I have a couple of such systems. One is a dual Celeron 366 at 550 on a BP6 mobo
> and the other is a dual 300 at 450 on a supermicro slot-1 mobo using the MSI
> slotkets. Out of curiosity I just compiled a 2.2.13pre kernel on the dual
> 300 Celeron @450 box with:
> 
> time make -j4 bzImage
> 
> With the following result:
> 
> real    2m57.413s
> user    4m38.690s
> sys     0m21.870s
> 
> The dual 366 Celeron @5550 was:
> 
> real    1m57.180s
> user    3m29.450s
> sys     0m16.220s
> 
> Dual P-III 500:
> 
> real    2m10.220s
> user    3m47.150s
> sys     0m19.000s
> 
> 
> But actual compile times will depend on configuration of kernel options (these
> are not standard Debian kernel .config files)
> 
> I have beaten these
> systems to DEATH and have not had a problem with overheating, sig 11 faults or
> anything. On the other hand, I have a pair of Celeron 366's that will not
> overclock at ALL. I have these systems running the distributed-net client to
> keep the CPU's at 100% useage so they stay about as hot as they can get. 
> 
> Oh, and if you should decide to run that distributed-net client on those dual
> Celerons, you might join the Debian Linux Power Users (2.2.12 SMP) team. We
> were rated the #597 team yesterday ... with only three people.
> 
> Note the dual 450 box is without air conditioning of any sort in the South Bay.
> 
>