[ale] Pentium Pro vs. Pentium II

[Geoffrey Myers]

Jason Boyles wrote:

> >I have a RH 4.2 running on Pentium II 266(mmx) with 128 megs of ram.
> Bogomips
> >shows 264. I heard that pentium pro 200 goes higher than that.i
> >Pentium Pro probably is the one most recommended, atleast that's what I
> have
> >seen discussed on newsgroups.
>
> Pentium Pro thoughts:
>
>         The Ppro has been discontinued, so maybe you can find it cheap.

Is this true?  The Pentium pro has been discontinued?

>         The Ppro's L2 cache runs at CPU speed, whereas the current PII cache
> runs at bus speed.
>
>     If you want to eventually upgrade to a PII when the prices drop, you can
> get an LX SEC1 MB
> and an SEC1 adapter for a Ppro from Tyan (~$25).
>
>     Anyone else here done any recent motherboard shopping?
>
>     I'm Jonesing for a Tyan S1692DL. I would go for the recent Abit LX, but
> their net support pales in comparison to Tyan.
>
> -----
> Jason Boyles <jason at alltel.net>



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