what's the difference between the pentium-4 and the celeron-d?
Dean Hamstead
dean at bong.com.au
Mon Feb 27 19:43:55 PST 2006
wikipedia has excellent run downs of the various intel, amd and
other vendors chips
Dean
rob_spellberg wrote:
> greetings, all ---
>
>
> before i start downloading a ton of intel docs on the p4 and the cd,
> i am hoping someone can give me short answers to two questions:
>
> a] what is the fundamental difference between them
> [ e. g., is the cd missing some major subsystem of the p4 ]?
> [ i am aware of the cpu clock speed differences and that
> the cd has a slower fsb. ]
>
> b] are there any particular docs that i should get [ intel and others ]
> with which i can rtfm to my heart's content or, at least, until
> i fall asleep?
>
>
> some background.
> ----------------
>
> until about ten years ago,
> i was fairly well-versed on motorola's 6800 and 68000 lines.
> i stopped paying attention to intel's lines after the 8086
> [ i have always considered segments to be a marketing hack that got in
> the way ].
> the only line with which i remain reasonably knowledgeable is the 68908
> family.
>
>
> my apps.
> --------
>
> i am currently running two boxes with fbsd_4.10 on p3/800mhz.
> i am about to acquire the parts for 4 to 6 boxes to replace these.
> all will get fbsd_6.x.
> one will have x installed to serve as my front-end.
> one will be dedicated to postgres.
> the remainder are tbd, but i want to experiment with different
> structures of firewall.
> i am pretty much settled on intel's 945g chipset, which has everything
> on board.
>
> with two specific exceptions
> [ a box built around an ati aiw_9600 to replace my vcrs
> [ needs a tbd mobo with an agp slot [ 865pe ] and a fast p4 ],
> a box for streaming audio from non-local radio stations ],
> i tend to be text-oriented and integer-oriented.
> because my apps tend to be undemanding,
> i think in terms of simple, inexpensive boxes for dedicated purposes,
> rather than trying to make one box do everything.
> i have yet to need more than one cpu/mobo.
> i am thinking of getting several different combinations
> so that i can benchmark some memory-intensive test code on each.
>
>
> sorry to go on at this length; i wanted to be thorough, but i'm sure i
> forgot something.
> thanks in advance.
> please cc me as i am not subscribed to this list.
>
>
> rob spellberg
> woodstock, illinois
>
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