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What are the Con's or Pro's of each processor?

[Fiber]

Celeron: Fast, Cheap
AMD: IMO, AMD's motherboards are not reliable, but I would get a Pentium.
Pentium: Faster, Good Prices, Cache is higher than Celeron.

Though, I could give you more information, I just do not know what your gonna be using it for? Dedicated server more than likely. In that case, go with the Pentium. Feel free to contact me if you need to do so.

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[Quags]

Hi,
I actually have servers with each of these processors. Personaly I think the celeron preforms better than the amd. The celeron in inexpensive and handes very well. The pentium is more expensive than the celeron but I don't see it preforming faster than the celeron. Just make sure you get enough ram

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[MikeA]

I disagree with fibroptikl. I have an AMD K6-2 400Mhz at home on my desk and my wife has an Intel Pentium III 700 Mhz and mine is usually faster than hers. So much so that my next purchase will be an Athalon and not a Pentium.

Celeron: Cheap and not as fast. Remember it doesn't have the cache on the chip (unless they changed that)

AMD: Fast, medium priced chip. Get at least a K6-3 or Athalon.

Pentium: Tryed and true chip. Very expensive (compared to the others). Fairly fast (Pentium III 500Mhz +).

Cyrix: Runs Hot, Slower than Celeron, Cheap price. Over the past two years, this chip has gone downhill in value.


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I need it for a d-server

[Fiber]

I have *found* them to be *sometimes* as I have *heard* they are un-reliable.

I have never used one before. Personally, I think they should be stable, but I hear it from overclockers, who are messing with ever asptect.

My Pentium 3 650, out performs any AMD within that range.

In a dedicated server though, I do or do not know if the AMD K6-2's are gonna be good. However, if you want raw speed go with the AMD, if you want speed and performance (I am not gonna argue against you 3d now users), go with the Pentium. If you want something around the Athlon/Pentium range with both go with the Celeron 2. Again Celeron's are Celeron's, and the Celeron 2's have SSE. They are out now.

Personally, this is a Hewlett Packard, though I bought so I could do some website design in July. Its a great computer, but I am going to upgrade to a Celeron 2 566 @ 850 or a Pentum 3 700e cb0. Nothing is integrated on my HP. I get really nice performance. If this were a ded. server, it would be extremely fast.


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Adam "fibroptikl" Lysne
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[Chicken]

Originally posted by fibroptikl:
I have *found* them to be *sometimes* as I have *heard* they are un-reliable...messing with ever asptect

Eh??? Adam- been on the computer a bit too long? Peepers jumping out of their sockets? Take a break

*EDIT*
I guess this makes sense to all of you? Anyway, just a tangent, and now the thread is too long to go back to whatever this means... nevermind
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[This message has been edited by Chicken (edited 08-03-2000).]

[Fiber]

Huh?

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[JTY]

Chicken, I think you need to step away from the computer for a few days.

[Fiber]

Yeah, I agree.

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AMD procs are cheap and overheat way to much.
hardocp is giving away fried anthlon procs that where used in testing (NOT OVERCLOCKING TESTS). yea, fried the chip causs they where running quake.


Also, if your amd k6-2 400 outperforms a pIII 700, your smoking way to much crack, or your PIII chip is fake and is totally fscked up.

[JTY]

Sweede, HardOCP destoried the chip by using the wrong heatsink. If you read the article you'd know that.

What is HardOCP? where is the article? I was just gonna upgrade to Athlon too...

[JTY]

Admin, HardOCP is an overclockers site, http://www.hardocp.com/ Also, the chip they used was a Thunderbird 1ghz.

And this is the article http://www.hardocp.com/articles/cool...ird/index.html

[This message has been edited by JTY (edited 08-03-2000).]

What do people do when the fan in there dedicated server or co-located server stops?, that must be a nightmare, figuring how what's wrong is probably the hardest part I'd imagine for remote admin, I hope DN covers it.